I was able to watch cable tv off rabbit ears while living in Fairbault MN in 
the 80s as well. I heard that system was so bad the cable company got in 
trouble with the FCC. The local 2M repeater interfered with one of the 
channels. The local civil defense repeater did as well. That was sort of 
cool as it let you know when you should turn on the scanner. (G)

I
73
Scott
Auckland New Zealand
ZL1CHM / N0HOK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 5:21 PM
Subject: Radio Interference Experiences


> Hi.
>
> Reading some of the messages on telephone interference reminds me of my
> first station which used a 150 ft. piece of wire end fed and loaded 
> against
> ground.  It radiated reasonably well, but got into everything, including
> our telephones.  In fact, the problem was so severe that I could actually
> disconnect telephone conversations in progress by using SSB on 75 meters 
> at
> 100 watts.
>
> Redoing the grounding and rerouting some of the telephone wiring 
> eventually
> got the problem down to a manageable level.
>
> While I lived in Ithaca, NY, we had some pretty severe cable leakage
> problems.  It was so bad at my mother's second apartment that when I saw
> how bad the leakage was on 2 meters, I went over and raised the dipoles on
> the television, and nearly all of the VHF channels on the cable were
> viewable on the rabbit ears just from the cable leakage.  When the fellow
> came from the local cable company, his jaw just about hit the floor when 
> he
> came in to hook up the cable and I was sitting there watching WPIX in New
> York on the rabbit ears!
>
> For those of you who don't know New York State geography, New York City is
> well over two hundred miles from Ithaca!
>
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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