No problems with TV around here, but the phone system is a mess. My former
second phone line which was shut off almost 10 years ago when we went to
broadband internet, is crossed with the neighbor's phone line so I can plug
a phone in to their jack and make a phone call on their line. I know because
I called myself when I found that out by mistake to see who's line that was.
The neighbors on the other side, same thing they have a former second line
which is now off and that's crossed with someone else's line. They all have
a nice hum in them that verizon's come out to fix a good 10 times, they can
fix it for about a day, some times 2, then it comes back worse. Sometimes
the phones are unusable. Also, I'm noticing my phones ringing once, no one
there, but they ring once for no reason. Last time they did that for a month
and then went dead so likely it's not my problem at all but when I call I
only get a line about either they've tried to fix it and can't, or that if
it works don't complain about it because it can get worse. No wonder in this
house 90% of our calls are taken on and made on cell phones. I guess fios
should fix that problem when they get it out this part of town but that
could be a while. I'd love to get a vonage or voice wing line and just run
the hole house through it until we get rid of that house line completely but
that won't fix the neighbors, that will still be my fault even though the
problem is actually, I'm 95% sure, verizon's fault. In my testing, I don't
even really hear my voice when I check it, I mean, it's definitely there
when the amp is on on 75 and 20, but it's not my voice you hear, it's a
noise that suggests to me a technical problem at the pole.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: antennas radials and what to
> Hi John;
> I had many many interference problems at a prior qth and telephone
> problems
> were the one problem that could be fixed. If you get the right tech
> person
> from the phone company it can be done.
> As for cable tv, that was another issue.
> Richard
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: antennas radials and what to
>
>
> The radials might help, but 75 meters has been strange like that for a
> while
> now. Seems like here about 5:25 PM Eastern time we lose 75 meters
> completely
> as far as the local nets and stuff and even later on, sometimes the
> signals
> are so up and down you need an amp to really communicate. Unfortunately,
> that's the band my amp bothers the neighbor's phone lines on and I don't
> feel like fighting with the phone company to fix their problem where I
> probably won't be here a real long time so I'm just getting rid of the amp
> for now. I'd hate to move with it anyway, but anyway, it could just be
> conditions though I'm sure the radials won't hurt.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gery Gaubert" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:22 PM
> Subject: antennas radials and what to
>
>
>> As all of you probably know, I have a butternut hf 6v vertical antenna.
>> I
>> =
>> have worked people in California, the Carolinas, Texas, New York and
>> Rhode
>> =
>> island. I haven't had a lot of time since I got licensed. I made these
>> co=
>> ntacts without radials on my antenna. Yesterday, I tried to participate
>> on=
>> a net on 3910 Khz. Hams throughout the state of Louisiana participate in
>> =
>> this net. I couldn't be heard but could hear almost everyone. I had an
>> sw=
>> r of about 1/6. 2 watts reflective and about 99 watts forward. I didn't
>> t=
>> hink this was that bad. I am notsure on how the discussion went but are
>> th=
>> e radials going to help for receiving or transmitting or both? Even
>> after
>> =
>> the radials are in place will the energy from the signal just go over the
>> l=
>> ocal areas?
>>
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