Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] discussion on USRP-->Wall Socket for Power Line Comms

[Brian Padalino]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Johnathan Corgan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:20, Nick Foster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Before anyone goes out there and barbecues themselves with a USRP, two
>> things:
>>
>> 1) Use Ettus Research products for power-line or hazardous voltage
>> applications at your own risk and after careful evaluation by competent
>> engineer.
>
> Yep.  While of course individuals may choose to go whatever route for
> their own experimentation, if we (GNU Radio project) do anything with
> GSoC related to power line communications, the student would need to
> use a commercially manufactured product that has been engineered for
> the purpose and have UL and/or CE certification.

Maybe something a little more accessible from MAXIM:

  http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/powerline/

They have an evaluation kit which might have some testpoints to
connect up to a USRP, or try to ship off samples through their 10/100
ethernet interface.

Brian