Hi.

When we moved into an apartment in Ithaca, NY, my mother had ordered cable 
for our apartment when we moved in.  Noticing that I was seeing more cable 
leakage on 2 meters than I had ever seen in my entire time on ham radio, I 
raised the dipoles on the TV and discovered usable signals on all of the 
VHF channels except for 13.  When the cable guy arrived to install the 
cable, I was sitting there watching WPIX in New York (probably about 275 
miles away), and his jaw just about hit the floor!

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 10:18 PM 12/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Many years ago when I lived in an apartment I picked up a TV channel on my
>ht, in the ham band.  I concluded it must be two-way and if I could hear it
>then I was probably causing interference.  I called the cable company and
>told them the situation.  They came that same day and found my neighbor
>across the hall had extended his coax with speaker wire!
>
>73, Ken -N5SWR

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