[TowerTalk] Weekend from hell

[n6sj at earthlink.net]

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 at contesting.com> On Behalf Of K9MA
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 5:05 PM
To: Wayne Kline <w3ea at hotmail.com>
Cc: towertalk at contesting.com; Ed Sawyer <sawyered at 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 at 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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> <ww3s at zoominternet.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:03:55 PM
> To: Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
> Cc: TowerTalk at contesting.com <TowerTalk at 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 at 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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