Hi Mike;

I was in CB in the 60-s and I was giving out TV i to a few of my local
neighbors.

I have since got out of CB.

Well, Susan and I moved back into the home that I grew up in during July of
1993.

My next door neighbor had a beem up to receive tv broadcasts.

I had been moving boxes over to the house when my next door neighbor rushed
out and asked if I was on my CB radio.

I said I was not aand that I had disguarded the equipment almost 30 years
earlier.

I asked why he wanted to know and he told me that he was receiving
interference with coming over his tv.

And you know what!  I wasn't even a ham at that time.

When I moved over here to NJ.  I asked one of my neighbors to come over
because I needed assistance with installing JAWS.

I was brand new to WINDOWS.

He did, and when he saw my dual-band radio he didn't say anything.

A short time later, his wife dropped her cordless phone into there swimming
pool.

It never worked right since and, when she asked why it sounded so bad her
Husband said that it was because all of that radio equipment that guy had
across the way.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: My Favorite TVI Fight!


> For about 5 years in the early 90s, I lived in an apartment where I snuck
> a
> multiband dipole onto the roof. It was lying flat on the roof, so may as
> well have been inside.
>
> My downstairs neighbor was a then middle-aged woman who had pretty severe
> emotional problems, part of which were caused by the fact that she never
> left her house for any reason.
>
> She figured out one day that I was a ham, and from that point, whatever
> went
> wrong in her house was my fault.
>
> What probably saved me from eviction, or from at least being told to take
> the station down, was the fact that this poor lady had always complained
> constantly about all of her neighbors, regardless of their character.
>
> Once she did call the cable company after a television automation glitch
> caused about 3 commercials to change in the middle. She made sure they
> knew
> that I had caused it.
>
> They actually sent a service tech out to order me off the air. Since I had
> not been home when the incident occurred, I simply refused, and called the
> director of engineering while this guy stood there with his mouth open.
> The
> real engineer listened to my list of cable leaks, and came out the next
> day.
> He found 6 unauthorized connections in the building next door.
>
> the office manager told me a short time later that I was now a member of a
> very large club consisting of everyone that she had ever tried to run off
> from the apartment complex during the 15 years that she had lived there.
>
> Since it's Halloween, one other incident with this lady is very timely.
> Once
> after several days of very cold weather, she called to ask if I knew my
> apartment was haunted. I played dumb just to see where this one would go.
> She had heard the building make those little snap and popping sounds that
> a
> wooden structure often makes on a very cold night. Since I was out of town
> when she heard it, the logical conclusion was that my apartment, not hers
> of
> course, was haunted.
>
> I probably shouldn't have done it this way, but I just couldn't help
> telling
> her that Casper was indeed a very friendly ghost, and that I would ask him
> to keep the noise down.
>
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>
>
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