[CQ-Contest] Power levels and TVI

k2qmf at juno.com k2qmf at juno.com
Mon Jan 10 11:39:24 PST 2011


John,
You should not be having any problem with your neighbor that is
using cable!  I run 1.5KW and my home TV is in the next room.
It has cable TV and I get no interference!  Do you have cable? And if so,
do you have any TVI ???

I would suspect that her TV cable connections are at fault!
Probably one of the "F" connectors is bad! (No Ground).

Good Luck.

73,
K2QMF
 
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:39:08 -0600 John Geiger <aa5jg at fidmail.com>
writes:
> I found out yesterday that I am having some occasional TVI with one 
> of the
> neighbors.  She is really cool about it but I don't know if it is 
> also an
> issue with others in the neighborhood, plus I would like to be 
> courteous
> about my operating as well.  I am using a low pass filter, so I am 
> assuming
> that the TV's front end is getting overloaded at times, as our 
> houses are
> only a few feet apart and they have cable for TV instead of picking 
> it up
> off the air.  I am running 100 watts to a pretty much unity gain 
> antenna.
> What power levels do others find works to reduce TV overloading?  
> Would
> going to 25 watts make a big difference? Need to drop power further 
> than
> that?
> 
> 73s John AA5JG
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