>At 11:05 AM 3/21/03 -0600, you wrote:
>>I have never heard of TIVO, relpay TV. Could you discribe this a little.
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>>I have had interferance on 75 meters which sounds like a computer
>>modem turning on and off. It's on for only a couple of hours
>>generally during the same time of day. The signal occurs every 17
>>khz across the 75 meter band and it is about an S-8 in my Icom 775.
>>I'm at a loss as to what the heck this interferance is.
>
>
>TiVO and ReplayTV are two different brands of a device that records
>TV on a hard disk under program control -- sort of a dedicated
>computer. It has a built-in modem that dials up a service once a
>day and gets the current program schedule. After that you can tell
>it "I want every ER," or "I want every movie with Randolph Scott in
>it," and the machine does the rest. I was worried about the
>vulnerability to TVI, either through the case or on the phone line.
>So far the word seems pretty good.
>
>The "every 17 KHz" sounds like some sort of horizontal sweep signal,
>except I think for standard US TV it should be every 15.7 kHz or
>thereabouts. I would try unplugging -- not just turning off -- all
>the TVs in your house, and then your computer monitor to see if the
>noise is associated with one of them.
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
>The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 23 Feb 03.
>Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
Hi Pete,
Thanks for the information, I guess I must be in the dark ages here.
The signal that interfers here could be at 16 khz, it's kind of a
broad signal, about 3 khz wide so it's kind of hard to tell exactly
what the freq is. I have tried all of the tv's and monitors here.
This signal starts up around 10 AM weekdays and goes of around 1 PM,
but it varies, on weekends I've heard it at 0830, so it's really hard
to track down. I suspect computer modem in the area.
Dale K9VUJ
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