Jeff,
I don't think digital vs analog made any difference. More likely, all the
signals went away because they replaced old corroded cables with new ones.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 20:13
Subject: Re: Cable TV radiation -was RE: some thing interesting
> Hi steve and the group. I just had a change to cable/Internet/home phone
> at my house and when that did happen the frequency that I have for IRLP
> useage in my area lost a lot of interference. All of that stuff is in
> the attic at my house and since the change took effect the open carrier
> sound on many VHF freqs has subsided. Is digital cable helping this at
> all? For a long time I had been hearing an open carrier with no audio or
> antything like that up until a few weeks ago.
>
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> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Steve Dresser wrote:
>
>> Lou,
>>
>> Obviously, the cable company up there had no shame. You might have
>> gotten
>> them to clean up their act if you had told them you wouldn't let them do
>> the
>> install as long as you could pick up their signal for free. Then again,
>> they probably wouldn't have done anything anyway. Great story.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 18:22
>> Subject: Re: Cable TV radiation -was RE: some thing interesting
>>
>>
>> > Hi Mark.
>> >
>> > I remember that when we moved into Sevanna Park in Ithaca, NY in the
>> > early
>> > 1980's, the cable leakage was so bad there that I just set the portable
>> > TV
>> > in the living room, raised the dipoles and had the basic 12 channels
>> > without paying for them. No illegal wiring (at least on my part, don't
>> > know about the neighbors!), no fuss or muss. Of course, 2 meters was
>> > unusable in the 145 MHz subband. When the cable technician came to
>> > hook
>> > up
>> > the cable, his jaw just about hit the floor when he saw me watching
>> > what
>> > was obviously cable TV programming without them having done their
>> > installation yet!
>> >
>> > They never did clean up their leakage though in the entire time that we
>> > lived there.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> > At 09:04 AM 6/20/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>> >>I remember when my neighbors connected the cable television to their
>> >>rabbit ears antenna so they could "broadcast" to the set in the bedroom
>> >>and avoid the charge for having a second set. Of course this also
>> >>allowed my low band transmissions to get into the cable and wipe out
>> >>other receiver front ends. =20
>> >>
>> >>A friend ran high power on 2 meter SSB and the mayor of the town called
>> >>in the FCC. The government investigator found the ham station was
>> >>legal
>> >>and clean. The mayor had extra sets hooked up with twin lead and the
>> >>cable company got a citation for many leaking connections. =20
>> >>I suppose the cable companies still transmit that warbling signal
>> >>around
>> >>108 MHz so the repair guys can hear it on the FM band while driving
>> >>around town.
>> >>
>> >>I think signals on a cable television system run from about 30 MHz to
>> >>close to 1,000 MHz.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Mark
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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