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
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