Title |
RF Channel Characteristics of the Medium-voltage Power Line for PLC |
Authors |
김선효(Kim, Seon-Hyo) ; 김관호(Kim, Gwan-Ho) ; 이형철(Lee, Hyeong-Cheol) ; 신철재(Sin, Cheol-Jae) |
Keywords |
RFI(Radio frequency interference) |
Abstract |
In this Paper, the channel characteristics of the medium voltage(22.9kV) power line to analysis the broadband power line communication in the frequency range up to 30MHz was measured. With the sideband electrical coupler in the operating frequency range from DC to 30MHz, we measured characteristic impedance, noise and attenuation of the medium voltage power line, and then characteristic impedance was measured at the state of unloaded medium voltage power line by Scattering parameter method of Vector Network Analyzer. As a measurement result, Channel impedance shows 100~380Ω at the less than 15MHz and 70~230Ω at the more than 15 MHz. Noise characteristics of power line shows -75dBm at 20MHz and Narrowband interference noise was from 3 MHz to 7MHz. |