Mike! That's hillarious! HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE! Kind of reminds me
of when I lived in Scottsdale, Arizona with my late husband, who was also a
ham. We had this young know-it-all next door neighbor who was bound and
determined to get both of us kicked off the air because he got lines and
squiggles on channel 5 on his sattellite dish!

Well, at first, the FCC Monitoring Station sent us a little booklet called
The Interference Handbook, and we were told to take down our Hustler
vertical antenna, which was
ground-mounted, disassemble the antenna, put some kind of grease that they
sent to be used, then put the antenna back together and put it up on the
mast again. (The mast was buried in the ground about eighteen inches, and
the antenna went over that, somehow or another. Even though I'm an Extra
Class ham, I know nothing about how that antenna was arranged.)

This guy wouldn't take "NO" for an answer, so the FCC Monitoring Station in
Douglas, Arizona, sent one of their vans out to check out our station.
While they were there, they checked it out physically, as well. Our
stations were the cleanest ones they said they'd ever seen. We were told to
resume our hamming as if nothing were going on next door. HEE HEE HEE HEE!
Got him, that sneaky little brat!

88's,
Reeva Parry,
AMATEUR RADIO CALL SIGN:  K8DMU FOR FORTY-FOUR YEARS!


At 05:40 PM 10/30/05 -0600, Mike Duke, K5XU, wrote:

>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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