What's a grow house?


David W Wood

Ham call - G3YXX
FOC # - 1685
Licensed - 1969
 

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 1:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: 10-meter interference problem now being narrowed down

Well here is what I have done before.  I have gone to the house with a 
radio.  Then I introduce myself and try to decide in myself if they are 
reachable.  If so I talk to them about short wave radio and Amateur radio. 
Then I let them hear the noise on my radio and explain when it started. 
Then I ask them if I could be of help to stop the noise but not the activedy 
around it.  That has worked well here except for when I found a grow house. 
They didn't like me at all and they got really mad at me and my Guide dog. 
They got so loud that their next door neighbors called the Police.  I didn't 
get in trouble, but the poor people got busted because their operation was 
not legal.  That is the only time I have had trouble looking for noise.  One 
time a neighbor of mine insisted that I was causing interference on his TV 
only to find that it was a controller of some kind that was connected to his 
fish tank.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:50 PM
Subject: 10-meter interference problem now being narrowed down


> Hi, everyone.
>
> It's me with one more report for the day.
>
> This morning, two ham friends and I tried to track down my anoying
> interference problem on 10 meters, and here's what we found:
>
> 1.  After extensive investigation, we determined that the interference
> problem is not in the home QTH.  Nothing changed when all of the circuit
> breakers were systematically turned on and off.
>
> However, when we took a walk outside with a receiver and directional
> antenna, we were actually able to pinpoint the interference to a house 
> that
> is about half a block away from where I live.
>
> The question now, is how do we deal with it?  We don't really know the
> involved people, so I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach them
> without them getting offended or intimmodated.
>
> Will keep everyone posted.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ 


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