that may very well be it. That's what took out our phones once last summer,
when they chewed through a wire about a mile away. The houses are also from
a time when the grounding wasn't that great in the electrical system so that
might play a roll too, my old house was that way and I had some trouble but
I was on CB then and not exactly running a good antenna or coax but I'm sure
the electrical system played a roll too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Interference Was: Re: echolink
Hi John,
Well, the houses are from about 50 to 60 years old. One thing I do know is
that we have a huge problems with squirrels in the area. People insist on
feeding the birds, but the squirrels scale the bird feeders and eat a lot of
the food and breed like rabbits. Consequently, we have indeed had a lot of
trouble with electric lines and cable lines. One time when we were having
difficulty with cable TV channels, a technician who came by our house to
check out the line said:
"those little b*stards, they chew through everything around here."
So I have wondered if this squirrel issue may be at the crux of the matter.
Unfortunately, there is little anyone can do other than complain to the town
and hope eventually, something is done.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Interference Was: Re: echolink
how old are the houses in that area? just wondering if maybe the electrical
system might not be grounded or not well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:27 AM
Subject: Interference Was: Re: echolink
Hi Danny,
Well, the people who are complaining are all using cable TV. They say I am
wiping out channels 62, 68-71 mostly. In addition they say I am coming
through such things as cordless phones (49 mHz) and such things as clock
radios and guitar amps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: echolink
Yeah, a lot of those old scanners would definitely do a number on tv
channels if you weren't real close to them. In terms of your current rig
coming in on them, is channel seven the "mostly watched channel there
abouts? I ask as it's frequency, of course, is fairly close to 2meters,
and I suppose if their tvs aren't on either cable or satelite, the
"fundamental overload of your transmitting at fairly high power, fairly
close to their received frequency, into an antenna being very close to
their sets with either outdoor or rabbit ear antennas maybe using unshielded
twinlead, might explain it, but that's a strange.
Danny.----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: echolink
> 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.
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