Re: P.LT. & Amateur Bands in The U.K.

Lurcherman wrote:
On Apr 26, 2:19 pm, Mike Hunt <imac.h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:33:46 +0100, Mike Hunt
<imac.h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I read more and more hysterical *** on various forums, announcing the
demise of H.F. due to P.L.T. and its variants.
I dont have any problems with this up to pres. :) Then again I sort it
out as it comes along.......
Is it scaremongering , or are these people for real ?
Yes, but it isn't PLT, which hasn't taken off here,
and is unlikely to. It's BT's Homeplug that is the
problem: a domestic system which uses the mains cabling
as a domestic network carrier, thus absolving the terminally
incompetent from setting up a working radio or ethernet
system.
I had two different species of this causing me
problems, one on the lower bands <10 MHz and another
type from 10 MHz up. Thankfully not both at the same time.
They both disappeared all of a sudden over the last
month or so.
I had a poblem several months ago with a homeplug system approx 100 feet
away, a word to the owner illustrating the problem it was causing with
an FT-817 as a test RX in his house sorted it out.

He contacted BT and they replaced it with a more recent model and no
problems after that.

You want to try that round here, most would get very nasty if you
knocked on their doors...


Well if I called them effing cretins, as you called me, I dont really blame them.
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