Topband: RFI and lots of it

[Jim Brown]

On Wed,10/28/2015 8:34 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> I've walked
> around with my battery K2 listening next to power pole ground wires, buried
> power lines where they enter the ground.

Yes, and those wires are transmitting antennas, so they radiate that 
noise like any other antenna.

The earth is NOT a sump into which noise is poured; rather, it is sink 
for RF current, which simply changes the boundary conditions for those 
antennas.

73, Jim K9YC