what basement radio station you running?
can I get more info on your equipment?

thanks
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Cable Channel 18


> Hi Phil.
>
> Down through the years I have been fortunate in that I never have had a
> severe RFI or TVI problem, although I have had a couple of minor
> interference problems.  The worst was back at my first QTH, where I was on
> a second floor with a fairly long path to a ground.  Try as I might, I 
> just
> couldn't get a low pass filter to be effective under those conditions, and
> the harmonic suppression on the Kenwood TS130S wasn't that great.  I know
> that because the problem was eventually eliminated when I changed
> rigs!  Anyway, the good thing was that I didn't have neighbors really 
> close
> by--we had 3 acres of land, and houses were generally spaced a couple of
> hundred feet apart.  I'm surprised that I don't have a lot of problems 
> here
> because the west wall of my house is literally a foot inside my property
> line and the neighbor's house is only a driveway width away.  But, then, I
> have a basement radio station, and getting a good RF ground connection is
> no problem here.
>
> One other area where I've had some trouble at other locations is 2 meter
> SSB.  Generally, I wouldn't see any problem with FM or CW transmissions,
> but would see modulation bars on some VHF television channels when
> operating 2 meter SSB.  I think it was a front end overload problem and
> primarily sensitive to amplitude variations.  I never found a solution for
> that one, but moved and for whatever reason the problem didn't seem to 
> move
> with me.  That one was only a problem with our own television set.  I was
> in a somewhat weaker signal area there, and that may have been a
> factor.  Also, when I moved away from home, the TV didn't move with me and
> I bought a new one.
>
> As for the problem at S.U., I don't think the guy with the bad TV
> interference problem ever put two and two together about where it was
> coming from, and the only way I knew about it was from the loud cussing
> every time I keyed the HT!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 10:38 PM 12/7/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>>Louis,
>>
>>That's some good thoughts.  They are pretty sure, now that all their 
>>radioes
>>have been cranked down to 2.5 watts, that they won't have any more 
>>problems
>>but they are still, for now, using the 450 remote set up to keep the
>>building management happy.  I'm sure the cable company can boost their
>>signal and also put in some filtering at the TV ends to stop the QRM but 
>>it
>>may be more trouble than it is worth unless they legally push the issue.
>>One of the ladies just got her license recently, too, so it is kind of
>>disappointing for her.  When I had a 2 KW amp and a 2 element 40 meter 
>>beam
>>at 70 feet, A neighbor called me one day from two houses away.  He was a
>>drunk and didn't work.  I had operated, running 1 kw, for years without 
>>one
>>TVI complaint.  He called one day and said I was getting into his TV when 
>>he
>>was trying to watch his favorite program.  At the time the program was on, 
>>I
>>was never on the air so I couldn't figure it out.  As it turned out, it 
>>was
>>on  every morning at 10 in the morning and I was always at work by then.
>>His favorite program?  A cartoon show.  Did I stop operating?  Nope.  I 
>>just
>>told him to report me to the FCC.  He didn't want to do that, so I kept, 
>>on
>>hand, a couple of copies of how to fix your TVI problems that the FCC sent
>>out for free.  I gave him one of those.
>>
>>Phil.
>>K0NX
>>
>>
>>Phil.
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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