All you can do pretty much is run it and see. When I was on vacation a 
couple years ago, we had major cable leakage, wiped out 145.25, and when 
everyone turned on their TV's at night it took out the whole 2 meter band 
for me, with an S9 of noise, HT, IC-706 it didn't matter. Funny thing was, 
I'd run 100 watts on HF every night, and we were all in cabins so close I 
could hear the TV's in the nearer ones and I didn't do a thing to them, so 
you never know, and if I was ever going to bother a TV, that was just the 
setup to do it with. My antenna was obvious as could be too, Carolina bug 
catcher on a tripod, right at the edge of the road that ran around the horse 
shoe of cabins, I mean, you couldn't miss the thing even if you wanted to. I 
was asked more than once if it was a bug zapper or what it was, but, I never 
bothered anything there. I did look and the cable wiring looked like some of 
the first ever run when they got cable TV, not well run, very well chewed, 
not well suspended around the buildings, it ran around half the buildings 
with nothing to hold it to the building except at the corners, I mean, I 
almost didn't operate when I looked at that sure I'd never do it with out 
RFI but nope, there was never a problem, except on 2 meters. That 
interference was both ways if I ran any more than 5 watts. These cabins were 
barely a car's width apart, you could park a car between them, but be 
careful opening the doors on both sides because a wide car would hit the 
buildings. That's how close we were there with cabins all 4 sides of us. In 
back we had maybe double that though I don't think so and the front there 
was a yard, but the tripod took up the whole thing. So, you never know, if 
you stay off 10 meters and probably 12, you could very well be fine like I 
was there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: ict90 and 2 meters


> Hi John;
> I didn't quite remember the frequency but it does indeed show up on 
> 145.25.
> I really wouldn't care except that even with the squelch turned down its
> really a pain to scan the repeaters in memory because it inevitably stops
> for one or two and there is nothing meaningful there.
> The other concern might be that if I am seeing these problems on 2 meters 
> I
> suspect there may be interference issues when I get on hf.  Unfortunately,
> even if the cable folks are to blame it is generally the guy with the big
> antenna who is initially suspected.
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: ict90 and 2 meters
>
>
> There's always going to be a few of them. I've taken HT's all over the 
> place
> about everywhere I've been, and I have never found a place that was
> completely free of those on some spots of the VHF and UHF bands. With
> computer equipment and the like being more and more common, and the
> receivers in the HT's being broad in the small ones, though the T90A, 
> after
> the first run of them is very good, but anyway, with all going on, they 
> are
> getting more and more but if it's not all over the place I wouldn't worry
> too much about it. I know in the 2 meter band alone, I must have 20 to 25
> spots on the band where I run in to that and more depending on conditions.
> If there's a cable leak, it should show up on 145.25 believe it or not but
> really if it' snot horrible, I wouldn't worry too much about it. 
> Computers,
> fax machines, stuff like that all generate a little noise.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:54 AM
> Subject: ict90 and 2 meters
>
>
>> Hi everyone;
>> Since we haven't had lots of activity on 2 meters locally I just set the
>> radio to scan the frequencies in memory.  Also tried scanning the band.
>> What I am finding is that there are lots of mysterious carriers 
>> throughout
>> the band that obviously stop the scan.  I am wondering if they might be
>> caused by some computer equipment, cordless phones or a dreaded cable
>> leak?
>> I haven't taken the radio for a walk to see if things quiet down when I
>> leave my happy home but that is on the to do list.  I had lots of 
>> possible
>> cable leak adventures at a prior qth and I am hoping we aren't going down
>> that path again.
>> Richard