Powerline PHYs?

GNU Radio
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I am curious if/how folks are attaching SDRs to household electrical
outlets for data networking experiments. Are there any kits or
off-the-shelf components that adapt from 120 VAC to a form more suitable
for SDR I/O?

Dave

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David Young OJC Technologies
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On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 14:10 -0500, David Young wrote:

I am curious if/how folks are attaching SDRs to household electrical
outlets for data networking experiments. Are there any kits or
off-the-shelf components that adapt from 120 VAC to a form more suitable
for SDR I/O?

Dave

There is a link in the gnuradio archives
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2008-08/msg00280.html

… but I am not sure this should be encouraged.
jim

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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Simon Knight wrote:

I agree with Jim.
It’s stating the obvious unless you’re an electrician this could be
very dangerous.

There are out of the box powerline ethernet adapters you could build
into a device with minimal risk.

You can even get access points which have a powerline port (quite a neat
way of adding wireless to a house IMO).

The only down side is they are fairly pricey.

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I agree with Jim.
It’s stating the obvious unless you’re an electrician this could be very
dangerous.