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  • Has anyone ever heard of transmitting sound over power-line?

    From bruce bowser@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 26 11:36:40 2023
    "Has anyone ever heard of transmitting sound over power-line? The situation I am running into is where someone is transmitting sound thru powerline and then the device they are using for the output is an HVAC, an A/C device, or a fan."

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    Using PLC for in-the-home controls is possible, but not simple, and it may not have anything thing to do with transmitting sound, per se. Transmitting signals that are below radio frequency (sound) without a carrier is problematic to say the least.

    Power Line Carrier (PLC) works like this. Some High Voltage (as in many thousands of volts) power lines are also used for communications ...


    Quora - 3 years ago
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  • From bruce bowser@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 26 11:41:58 2023
    "More complicated eavesdropping devices, called parasitic transmitters, can be planted in a power line."

    Eavesdropping Becomes Undetectable
    Washington Post - April 11, 1987
    — https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/11/eavesdropping-becomes-undetectable/751caced-2cec-4a8f-b40f-b41189485358/

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 27 08:55:42 2023
    I believe you lose signal when you hit a transformer

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  • From bruce bowser@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Aug 28 20:36:00 2023
    On Sunday, August 27, 2023 at 1:55:46 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I believe you lose signal when you hit a transformer

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    I wonder what the newspaper was referring to then?

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