ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a field measurement campaign performed under the umbrella of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) [1] and Specialist Task Force (STF410) [2–5]. The radiated E-field was recorded from power line communication (PLC) signals injected into the mains grid within private homes. The radiation measurement set-up basically consists of a network analyser (NWA) connected with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) PLC coupler to the mains. The NWA needs to be calibrated in order to eliminate the effects caused by using long cables in the building. A response calibration is done by shortcutting the endings of both coaxial cables. The complementary cumulative distribution (C-CDF) of the threshold of all radio services at all locations independent of the radio device or power supply used. The x-axis is the feeding PSD injected to a power outlet. When performing similar tests in the HF range with AM radio stations, a significant difference was found if the radio was battery driven or mains powered [9].
