From: "Chuck Kembring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Bruce...
I believe the panel you describe is from an Electric Utility Company's
transmission sub-station carrier current test panel.
They frequently transmit carrier current acrossed the high tension lines
to
control devices at a remote location and transmit voice and telemetry
data.
This is just a simple vom and RF milliamp meter you describe.
It slips into a bracket usually near the top of a 19" rack. You generally
have a couple of these at the site and you can move them from rack to rack
as you test and calibrate the carrier units associated with each power
line.
I hope this answers your question. Sorry it's not about some neat piece of
rare radio gear but it is still RF...
73,
Chuck WB3LGG
That carrier current transmission takes place at LF and VLF, down below the
AM broadcast band. It is unlicensed, operating under Part 15 of the FCC
rules. This is the unlicensed serviced that pre-empted the proposed
low-frequency amateur radio allocation. The FCC said they were afraid that
licensed amateur operation in this part of the spectrum would interfere with
the unlicensed carrier current communication used by electric power
utilities.
Yet, they make a completely about-face claim regarding BPL, maintaining that
digital rubbish transmitted over unshielded elevated power lines at HF will
not cause harmful interference to amateur radio and other licensed services
in the 1.8 - 80 mHz part of the spectrum.
Go figure.
Don k4kyv
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