Supposedly, with the amp I can cut off phone conversations if I do it right 
though I"m not sure I believe that one.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:21 PM
Subject: Radio Interference Experiences


> Hi.
>
> Reading some of the messages on telephone interference reminds me of my
> first station which used a 150 ft. piece of wire end fed and loaded 
> against
> ground.  It radiated reasonably well, but got into everything, including
> our telephones.  In fact, the problem was so severe that I could actually
> disconnect telephone conversations in progress by using SSB on 75 meters 
> at
> 100 watts.
>
> Redoing the grounding and rerouting some of the telephone wiring 
> eventually
> got the problem down to a manageable level.
>
> While I lived in Ithaca, NY, we had some pretty severe cable leakage
> problems.  It was so bad at my mother's second apartment that when I saw
> how bad the leakage was on 2 meters, I went over and raised the dipoles on
> the television, and nearly all of the VHF channels on the cable were
> viewable on the rabbit ears just from the cable leakage.  When the fellow
> came from the local cable company, his jaw just about hit the floor when 
> he
> came in to hook up the cable and I was sitting there watching WPIX in New
> York on the rabbit ears!
>
> For those of you who don't know New York State geography, New York City is
> well over two hundred miles from Ithaca!
>
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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