Then there was my neighbor in Salt Lake City about 40 years ago, who complained
that ever since I had strung up my dipole, her washing machine wasn't working
right...
73,
Steve
N6SJ
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From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of K9MA
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 5:05 PM
To: Wayne Kline <w3ea@hotmail.com>
Cc: 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
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Scott Ellington
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> 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 ,
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> 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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