My 17 year old son just came over complaining that I was screwing up the
internet.
I laughed and said not today as I have not been transmitting for the last
hour and he just got home.
Reminds me of times when my folks would get blamed for their neighbors
television issues. I have not done any transmitting from their place for
almost 10 years. I still have a couple of towers up. My Dad loves to tell
them to jump to some other conclusion or jump in a lake HI!
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
never get over." Ben Franklin
-----Original Message-----
From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of W2RU - Bud Hippisley
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:22 PM
To: rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] DSL interference
On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Martin Ewing wrote:
> Actually, it occurs to me that you could move your telco entrance back
> to its original location, split out the DSL there, and bring the two
> lines separately to surge suppressors at your SPG in the "hot" area,
> shielding the DSL line as much as possible.
Yes, that's pretty much the general direction I'm hoping to convince the
telco guy to move in, given that everything else I've tried so far hasn't
quite made the grade. Unfortunately, we've been "enjoying" 40 mph winds and
blinding snow for the past 30 hours or so, and neither the telco guy nor I
have had much stomach for tackling that kind of project right now!
I didn't mention a couple of things in my first posting. (rfman45,
W2LO in TN, is going to love this story about his favorite telco....)
We live on an inland lake, and we get our telephone service via underwater
lines from the other side of the lake. My service comes up out of the water
to a telco pedestal in my next door neighbor's yard, then loops from the
terminal block in the pedestal back into the water and comes up out of the
water again near my boathouse and goes about
25 or 30 feet to the corner of the _old_ part of my dwelling where the NID
used to be located. Since the boathouse is that much farther from the
vertical, and since it's sheltered and has power, and since it's essentially
one story below my first floor, shielded from direct line- of-sight to the
160 tower by the embankment it's cut into, I'm thinking a _wonderful_ place
for a NID and the DSL modem to be located would be inside the boathouse, at
deck planking level. I just have to work a little harder to convince the
telco guy that a good ground rod there, rather than the AC service entrance
ground he prefers, will be sufficient.
At this point, I'm almost willing to trade the lightning susceptibility of a
fax machine or cordless telephone base station every three or four years for
peace in the family.
Bud, W2RU
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