[TowerTalk] Weekend from hell

[Stan Stockton]

Funny story - My dad, N5DX, (W5DRW at the time) was operating AM one Sunday morning back in the 1950's.  Someone in the congregation at the First Baptist Church about three blocks away left the building and ran to his house to report that he was coming in loud and clear over the church's PA system and they couldn't hear the minister.  Yikes!

Stan, ZF9CW

> On Nov 18, 2019, at 8:27 PM, <n6sj at earthlink.net> <n6sj at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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:
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>> 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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>> From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of WW3S 
>> <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
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>> 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....
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>>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 5:50 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>> 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...
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>>> 
>>> Ed  N1UR
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