[RFI] Fw: "homeplug" activity to establish PowerLine communicationfor Home use

[Hare,Ed, W1RFI]

HomePlug V.1 uses 4-20 MHz, with most amateur bands notched about 30 dB below the permitted FCC Part 15 levels.  That is not enough to protect against interference in all cases, but is well worth the doing nonetheless. The new 5 MHz allocation is not protected in HomePlug V.1.

The upcoming "AV" version of HomePlug will be similarly notched, with 5 MHz added, I would expect. 

Ed Hare, W1RFI


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rfi-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Tom Rauch
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:45 AM
> To: RFI
> Subject: [RFI] Fw: "homeplug" activity to establish PowerLine
> communicationfor Home use
> 
> 
> Here we go again!!!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Grunow, Ulli" <ulli.grunow at barco.com>
> To: <w8ji at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:30 AM
> Subject: "homeplug" activity to establish PowerLine
> communication for Home use
> 
> 
> > Tom,
> > I remember you as one of the very active, experienced 160m
> operators, when I
> > was active as PA5AT and at our clubstation PI4COM
> > In the meantime I moved to Belgium and I am not active yet
> after the
> > relocation...
> >
> > Today I got an alarming newsletter via e-mail (as I am
> working in the
> > audio/visual industry)
> > This newsletter tries to promote also in Europe powerLine
> communication
> > (PLC) as the de-facto standard for in-house distribution
> of multimedia
> > signals preferrable for hometheater and digital networks
> at home....
> > Please check their website: www.homeplug.org
> >
> > It is a pitty to have such technology taking over, and
> make radio reception
> > on the AM vitually impossible.....
> >
> > Please ague against this organization and also motivate
> ARRL/FCC to run a
> > strong campaign against them to stop this type of
> distribution strategy.
> >
> > I wanted to inform someone in the USA about their activity
> in Europe
> > (certainly even worldwide...)
> > This technology should not be proposed to customers in
> favour to any other
> > technically much more advanced distribution network at
> home (such as modern
> > IT infrastructures or coax cabling)
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Ulli, PA5AT
> 
> 
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