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

[N6KJ]

In your experience, how far away does a homeplug device need to be for
it to no longer be a problem (assuming a modest amateur station with
modest HF yagis)?


On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:22:30 -0400, "Hare,Ed, W1RFI" wrote:

> 
> 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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