Also if they're on cable and like to watch cable channel 18
it's center freq is 145.25 mhz. I used to have a packet
station up 24/7 at my dad's and my dad griped because he was
laid up with a broken leg and watching home shoping network
or some stupid BS and my packets interfered. tCI cable in
southeast Iowa was leaky as heck. THe local machine got
into a neighborhood north of BUrlington IOwa and made some
residents upnhappy for awhile. The cable company kept
laying it off to ham radio until I talked to a buddy that
worked there and explaiend that if they were that leaky they
were also leaking into the aero band, and that was a
definite no-no. TOok him for a walk around the neighborhood
with a handheld and hsowed him all the trash coming from
channel 18 and other freqs. Needless to say we suddenly
heard no more complaints from the neighbors up near the
repeater site.
73 de nf5b
Richard WEbb,
Electric SPider Productions,
Eads Tennessee
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