[RFI] Mystery noise

[Charles Plunk]

Many years ago, a fellow from a house 3 houses down, called and cursing 
(I have known him since we were kids (I am 61) and he was quite probably 
drunk) that I was tearing up his mothers TV on an antenna. I was running 
100w 6m digital meteor scatter. 4 el beam pointed in their direction.

He threatened to call the FCC. My response was, hold on a moment I will 
get you their telephone number :-). He then hung up on me. Never heard 
anymore about it. We now converse at Walmart like nothing ever happened. 
After the call, I looked and the only antenna on the house was one of 
those wing shaped camper antennas at most 20' high trying to pick up 
Memphis more than 50 miles away. Geezz....


Another neighbor (a nice fellow about a block away), also many years 
ago, was on cable TV getting interference on Ch 18 (2 meters and one of 
his favorite channels) when I was on FM. He, the city administrator, a 
cable tech, and I met at his house. Of course the conversation from the 
administrator and cable tech leaned towards it my fault even though the 
neighbor was on my side. I could feel the trend going towards them 
threatening to call the FCC.

I tried to explain to them that CATV is suppose to be a closed system, 
etc which seemed to fall on deaf ears. To prove my point I put the TV on 
Ch 19 (power co freq, their tower about 1/2 mile away). Then called the 
power co and ask them to key their transmitter (while I had my HT tuned 
to them). As they did it wiped out 19. The look on their faces was 
priceless, lol


I sure like digital TV :-)

Chuck
W4NBO


On 8/12/21 1:02 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
> Oh,.....this wonderful digital age. Where is FCC??????
>
> Why even have Part 15 if there is no enforcement?????
>
> I know, ....., I'm opening a forbidden can of worms, but.........
>
> Dave - WØLEV
>