[UK-CONTEST] PLT Petition

David Ferrington, M0XDF M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk
Tue May 5 17:20:39 PDT 2009


I'd be interested to know if you hear any RFI outside the ham bands -  
perhaps these are notched like the Comtrend's are? And presumably you  
have been QRV while someone else has been using the homeplugs?
73 de M0XDF


On 5 May 2009, at 17:39, Darrell G0HVQ wrote:

> I'm going to be controvertial here - I'm running PLT to get the PCs  
> round
> the house networked and experience a tiny amount of QRM on a few  
> spot freqs,
> I get much more from other devices, particularly the non-CE marked  
> PC PSU I
> got off eBAY and the LCD TV. Yes, I'm an active ham and contester on  
> 80m-2m,
> the 80m dipole is attached to the house, so not far from the PLT  
> devices,
> and I have a very low noise floor (out in the countryside) so I do  
> notice
> when local QRM appears.
>
> Perhaps I got lucky, I'm using 85M Homeplug Turbo devices:  
> thankfully I got
> loaned a couple to try out before I bought, as I was worried about  
> EMC. But
> from my perspective, they're not as bad as everyone is making out.
>
> 73
> Darrell



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