Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 18, 2019, at 10:31 PM, K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
>
> .......Some years ago, a neighbor's garage door mysteriously was opening
> itself. He asked me about it, and I checked my log, which showed no
> operation. He was satisfied with that, and got a new garage door opener.
> Never heard from him again. Not all neighbors are so reasonable.
>
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Ahhh....the old garage door trick.....many many people change the code on their
opener from default.....means the default opener would open their door....back
when we were younger and less responsible, we check our opener as we’d drive by
peoples houses. ( we had a genie on the default setting) you’d be surprised
how many doors you could open !!!
>> *From:* TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of K9MA
>> <k9ma@sdellington.us>
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 18, 2019 8:05 PM
>> *To:* Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>
>> *Cc:* TowerTalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>; Ed Sawyer
>> <sawyered@earthlink.net>
>> *Subject:* Re: [TowerTalk] Weekend from hell
>> Great, Wayne! That’s exactly how to turn a potentially hostile neighbor into
>> a grateful one.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Scott K9MA
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> Scott Ellington
>>
>> --- via iPad
>>
>> > On Nov 18, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Ed, This assumption that you antenna caused interference is not an
>> > unsual phenominum. I had an instance where a neighbor on the next road
>> > over came to our home claiming the antennas 9 Yagi antennas on 4 towers
>> > had captured all the TV signals in our area and her TV signal was almost
>> > just snow because of it. I and my wife listened to her complaint and I
>> > tried unsuccessfully to explain A: TV signals are not attracted to my
>> > antennas like a magnet B: the TV broadcast signals are not near the
>> > current commercial broadcast frequency’s ( to no avail ) I offered to
>> > come over to there home and examine there installation.
>> >
>> > Apon my arrival it was at first asseratained there home was not using
>> > over the air broadcast TV BUT Cable TV !!!!
>> > In inspection in the basement the owner and son tried to become cable TV
>> > distrabution engineeres. Unseccesfully IMHO
>> > After removing not 3 but 4 3 way spliters and 8 uncompleted un crimped
>> > connectors . After a trip to my home and returning with the proper tools
>> > I reconfigured and MESS and installed the un fastened ground wire at
>> > the entrance block.. WOW and all read SEVEN TV’s and one gaming console
>> > ??
>> > Now had a acceptable siginal
>> >
>> > This happened during the height of the 2nd Golf War and her husband was
>> > in the service and in the Theater . As a VET prompted me to go above and
>> > beyond
>> >
>> > GO figure
>> >
>> > Wayne ,
>> > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows
>> > 10
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of WW3S
>> > <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
>> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:03:55 PM
>> > To: Ed Sawyer <sawyered@earthlink.net>
>> > Cc: TowerTalk@contesting.com <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Weekend from hell
>> >
>> > LOL....I had a similar instance....my beam is on a hazer on a 50 ft
>> > tower..I could crank it up, and almost immediately get a call from my one
>> > neighbor about interference to his tv, even though I wasn’t on the
>> > air.....yet I could operate with it cranked down ( think closer to his
>> > house !) and never hear a peep from him....
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
>> >
>> >> On Nov 18, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Don't assume you caused the interference. Twice in the past year I have
>> >> had
>> >> neighbors (over 2000 ft away from my antennas) claim I was interfering
>> >> with
>> >> their TV. Both times I was out of the country...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ed N1UR
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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> Scott K9MA
>
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