Ron,

Come to think of it, our TV used rabbit ears, which is probably why 
the receiver gave it fits.  Your neighbors may have equipment that 
isn't up to specs, but that's a hard one to sell.  I'm surprised they 
can tell it's your voice.  I thought that only happened on AM, but 
maybe it happens on FM as well.

Steve

On Friday 1/20/06 00:21 Ron Canazzi wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>Well, all I know is the neighbors say they can hear my voice plain as day.
>I have never received phone calls from them.  So who really knows.  As far
>as your description of receivers and lines on the television, I had those
>old crystal controlled Bear Cat Scanners made by Electra in the mid and late
>1960's and they really did do a number on television pictures with their
>rather powerful local oscillators.  This was in the day of the rabbit ears
>and the roof mount TV antenna.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:50 PM
>Subject: Re: echolink
>
>
>Ron,
>
>If you're not bothering your own stuff, I'm surprised the neighbors
>are having problems.  Do you know for certain that the problem is
>coming from your station?  I've always told my neighbors to call me
>at the exact time they think I'm interfering with their equipment,
>and I've gotten very few calls.  When I did get a call, I was
>transmitting, and I stopped, and they were happy.  Maybe I've been
>lucky, but I've never had trouble with that sort of thing.  Once,
>though, when I was a kid, I had a receiver that put lines onto our
>TV.  I didn't understand why at the time, but now I'm pretty sure
>that the receiver's local oscillator was being picked up by the TV
>set.  My father kept yelling at me to turn down the power, and I kept
>arguing that I wasn't transmitting.  I guess we were both right, and
>both wrong.
>
>Steve
>
>On Thursday 1/19/06 13:45 Ron Canazzi wrote:
> >Hi Steve,
> >
> >As mentioned before, I have had people--supposedly knowledgeable in these
> >areas--check the system out periodically and they find nothing wrong.
> >Oddly
> >enough, I get no interference on my stuff at all--even on HF at 100
> >watts--except that on 10 meters, I get into my computer speakers.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:48 PM
> >Subject: Re: echolink
> >
> >
> >John,
> >
> >I have a Diamond X50 up on the roof, and although I sometimes run 50
> >watts on 2 or 450, the only thing I bother is my amplified computer
> >speakers.  One of our neighbors lives about 15 feet from my antenna,
> >and they have never complained of interference from me, even on
> >HF.  Ron, you might want to check your connections.  Cold solder
> >joints and corrosion can sometimes cause problems.
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >On Thursday 1/19/06 09:36 John Miller wrote:
> > >on vacation I stay on 0.25 of an acre at the most might be smaller, and I
> > >manage to get something up and get out from there.