Lou,

Obviously, the cable company up there had no shame.  You might have gotten 
them to clean up their act if you had told them you wouldn't let them do the 
install as long as you could pick up their signal for free.  Then again, 
they probably wouldn't have done anything anyway.  Great story.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 18:22
Subject: Re: Cable TV radiation -was RE: some thing interesting


> 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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