In article ,
clifto wrote:

yea right wrote:
The best way to block BPL from you home is to place .01uf caps between
your mains and ground after the meter on YOUR wiring.

Aside from the comments others have made, you can't just grab any old caps
and put them on the AC line, as several television manufacturers found out
the hard way during the sixties and seventies. Caps for power line use are
specially constructed.

If I remember correctly capacitors across AC lines at the input to
electronic or electrical devices are supposed to have certain safety
agency rating and are known as Y and X type capacitors.

Here is an informative PDF
http://www.evox-rifa.com/technote_pdf/rfi_fact.pdf

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
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I wish it was true that you could counter BPL interference with antenna
placement. Well maybe if you move the antenna to the next county.


That's right. It's not like the BPL noise will be coming from a single
point source which could be nulled out. The noise will be radiated from the
power lines and will be coming from every direction.

However, we can hope that the alternatives to BPL continue to get better and
cheaper. Or maybe I need to dip my radio in Miracle-2. I'm sure Joyce and
Dave will clue me in.

Frank Dresser

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"Frank Dresser" wrote:

"Telamon" wrote in
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I wish it was true that you could counter BPL interference with
antenna placement. Well maybe if you move the antenna to the next
county.


That's right. It's not like the BPL noise will be coming from a
single point source which could be nulled out. The noise will be
radiated from the power lines and will be coming from every
direction.

However, we can hope that the alternatives to BPL continue to get
better and cheaper. Or maybe I need to dip my radio in Miracle-2.
I'm sure Joyce and Dave will clue me in.

Yes, there are some Hams that have already documented the the
neighborhood wide broadband noise generated by these BPL systems. The
levels are high enough that it would not surprise me if they are not
already raising the average background noise as this crud propagates
across the country.

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Telamon
Ventura, California