[Elecraft] BPL

[Larry Cahoon]

>
> >
> > Having the lines underground would also eliminate the RFI issues with
>power
> > lines.  No one would be fighting broadband over power lines, and the
>power
> > industry would have yet another source of revenue.
> >
>Actually this is not true. If you've been following Ed Hare's testing of
>the area's that have been used during the BPL trials, he made note that
>in areas where the cables were underground, the signal strengths were
>lower, but still very much a problem, and a source of major interference
>to the HF spectrum.

As a case in point on RFI from underground cables check out
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/08/10/1/?nc=1
this was on the ARRL home page as one of their articles less than a week ago.

73 de Larry...........WD3P
http://www.wd3p.net/