Cable Forum - View Single Post - If you are planning on buying homeplugs

zoombini · 17-01-2015, 14:30

Hi all, homeplugs may well be one of the best things since sliced bread to some, but to radio users they are the devils spawn.

They can cause widespread interference in the radio spectrum and are amongst the reasons why many radio amateurs cannot use their licensed equipment at home. I am amongst those that cannot as I get so much noise that I cannot hear people who I could hear clearly if I was away from the house (it's not mine - its the neighbours).

Anyway - whats likely to be coming is further regulations that will make it illegal for end users to be causing interfierance - so the best way of preventing this if you do have to buy those awful doohickeys is to buy good quality\decent brand name ones rather than cheap unknowns that have likely never been through EMC testing.

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bin...n_Document.pdf
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/con...einterference/

The same may well apply to Plasma TV's, central heating equipment etc.

17-01-2015, 14:30	#1
zoombini Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: England Services: I no longer receive cable services, I blame the inept accounts dept for that. Posts: 3,731	If you are planning on buying homeplugs - consider this first. Hi all, homeplugs may well be one of the best things since sliced bread to some, but to radio users they are the devils spawn. They can cause widespread interference in the radio spectrum and are amongst the reasons why many radio amateurs cannot use their licensed equipment at home. I am amongst those that cannot as I get so much noise that I cannot hear people who I could hear clearly if I was away from the house (it's not mine - its the neighbours). Anyway - whats likely to be coming is further regulations that will make it illegal for end users to be causing interfierance - so the best way of preventing this if you do have to buy those awful doohickeys is to buy good quality\decent brand name ones rather than cheap unknowns that have likely never been through EMC testing. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bin...n_Document.pdf http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/con...einterference/ The same may well apply to Plasma TV's, central heating equipment etc.