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you hooked your ham radio up to your tv? the atanna?
what did he say when you told him what you were doingg?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: Cable Channel 18
> Hi.
>
> When we moved into an apartment in Ithaca, NY, my mother had ordered cable
> for our apartment when we moved in. Noticing that I was seeing more cable
> leakage on 2 meters than I had ever seen in my entire time on ham radio, I
> raised the dipoles on the TV and discovered usable signals on all of the
> VHF channels except for 13. When the cable guy arrived to install the
> cable, I was sitting there watching WPIX in New York (probably about 275
> miles away), and his jaw just about hit the floor!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
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>
>
> At 10:18 PM 12/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>>Many years ago when I lived in an apartment I picked up a TV channel on my
>>ht, in the ham band. I concluded it must be two-way and if I could hear
>>it
>>then I was probably causing interference. I called the cable company and
>>told them the situation. They came that same day and found my neighbor
>>across the hall had extended his coax with speaker wire!
>>
>>73, Ken -N5SWR
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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