Interference expected

An Omega station in New Zealand will interfere with work by local scientists in the Very Low Frequency range, said Captain M. X. Polk, U.S. Navy in Wellington recently.

If a station was built, at a cost of about $4 million the 10-14ke band would be affected. The difficulties for the Lake Pearson site, would not, however, be insurmountable, said Captain Polk.

Researchers would have to use filters, which are inexpensive, to remove interference from the transmissions. Because of the nature of the signals, they would be very easy to filter out, and in the long term should not affect V.L.F. research.