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

[bruce bowser]

\"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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Charles Foy
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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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[bruce bowser]

\"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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I believe you lose signal when you hit a transformer

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[bruce bowser]

On Sunday, August 27, 2023 at 1:55:46 AM UTC-7, vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

I believe you lose signal when you hit a transformer

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I wonder what the newspaper was referring to then?