manaen:
Our local, small town power company just uses cheap AM radios that have a
signal strength meter to look for noisy power lines, bad insulators and
such.
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Best Regards,
Daniel Sofie
Electronics Supply & Repair
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:21:45 +0000, James Sweet wrote:


"manaen" wrote in message
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Does anyone know where I can purchase a powerline antenna? These used
to
be very plentiful. They seem to be very hard to find these days
though.
Could anyone point me in the proper direction?

Nobody sells them because they're junk and never worked worth a crap.

Uhm that's not entirely true I am *not talking about the plug your tv into
the wall outlet type of powerline antenna. I am talking about the type of
antenna that you could hook up to a powerline and examine pn pg ng
individually while having your receiver hooked into an outlet. It may or
may not have some attenuation switches as well to keep you from blowing
the front end of your receiver up. I am well aware of the limitations
surrounding powerlines. I would be using this for experimentation. The
powerline antenna would primarily be for the protecton of the receiver
connected to the outlet. I really don't care if there is static. There
used to be a few companies that sold such boxes, but i have not been able
to find them.
I appreciate the help everyone has given though.