Hi Mark.

I remember that when we moved into Sevanna Park in Ithaca, NY in the early 
1980's, the cable leakage was so bad there that I just set the portable TV 
in the living room, raised the dipoles and had the basic 12 channels 
without paying for them.  No illegal wiring (at least on my part, don't 
know about the neighbors!), no fuss or muss.  Of course, 2 meters was 
unusable in the 145 MHz subband.  When the cable technician came to hook up 
the cable, his jaw just about hit the floor when he saw me watching what 
was obviously cable TV programming without them having done their 
installation yet!

They never did clean up their leakage though in the entire time that we 
lived there.

73, de Lou K2LKK

  At 09:04 AM 6/20/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>I remember when my neighbors connected the cable television to their
>rabbit ears antenna so they could "broadcast" to the set in the bedroom
>and avoid the charge for having a second set.  Of course this also
>allowed my low band transmissions to get into the cable and wipe out
>other receiver front ends. =20
>
>A friend ran high power on 2 meter SSB and the mayor of the town called
>in the FCC.  The government investigator found the ham station was legal
>and clean.  The mayor had extra sets hooked up with twin lead and the
>cable company got a citation for many leaking connections. =20
>I suppose the cable companies still transmit that warbling signal around
>108 MHz so the repair guys can hear it on the FM band while driving
>around town.
>
>I think signals on a cable television system run from about 30 MHz to
>close to 1,000 MHz.
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>
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