[TowerTalk] Ham radio vs. satellite dishes

[Jim Brown]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:13:17 -0600, Tom Anderson wrote:

>Has anyone had any problems with RFI, etc. to dish systems 
>vs. cable and HF or VHF transmissions?  

I've had a DirectTV dish for at least 5 years, no problems at all. I'm in a 
Chicago residential neighborhood that is relatively densely populated -- 
houses on either side of me are 20 ft from my house, at least 15 apartment 
units within 100 ft, virtually of which are served by cable. 

I run a KW on 160-10, 100w on 6 and 2 SSB. Never had a TVI complaint (except 
from the XYL, before I got serious with suppression and filters on the TV and 
hi-fi rig). And all of that is clean with 100 watts. I live on the second 
floor of a wood 2-flat, rent out the 1st flr to a family. They told me that 
one weekend when I was working an HF SSB contest, there were voices coming out 
of the electric piano. That's the only RFI complaint.