Or, you sign up with T-Mobile for $50 monthly all in; gear supplied; and once in tell Infinity Foxtrot Oscar.
Ed McCann AG6CX Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 20, 2021, at 12:07 PM, David Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > First off, there is no way that your antennas alone can passively trash > Xfinity's internet network. Whoever told you that is an idiot. > > Secondly, you could offer to do some testing with Xfinity in attendance to > verify whether or not your transmissions were causing a problem. I have a > small local wireless ISP that uses my tower to serve about 240 subscribers in > the valley below my QTH, and about a year ago he started to see what looked > to him like random problems with the routers on the tower. I suggested that > we do some checks, and sure enough transmitting at high power on 10m caused > his routers (one in particular) to burp. I hadn't operated much on 10m > previously because of the solar cycle. > > He could stand there next to the tower and monitor the network with his > cellphone. If a small one-man ISP can do that, Xfinity can. He checked his > shielded CAT lines and all seemed to be solidly connected, so I suggested he > was getting common mode interference on the shields and that he could put > some clam shell ferrite cores (I suggested #31) on the lines near each box > and antenna. He bought a bunch of them and that solved the problem. > > In my case, I have it written into our contract that my ham radio has > priority over his gear, and I forced him to get my tower officially permitted > for his commercial use of it, so the burden was on him anyway. > > 73, > Dave AB7E > > > >> On 10/20/2021 11:21 AM, eric norris via Elecraft wrote: >> Dear Gang: >> Xfinity, our internet provider, showed up at 7:30am this morning, to explain >> to the XYL that we were being cut off for good because my amateur radio >> activities had caused wide area outages. Oddly, these wide area outages did >> not include my own house. They told her the antennas themselves--absent any >> power--were the problem >> The last time I was threatened, I installed chokes and opto-isolaters on our >> shielded ethernet lines, and after being told they use 14Mhz as their >> carrier frequency, I have stayed off 20m, only using 100w unless I'm in a >> rare contest. I asked to speak to a technical guy--they gave me a number >> which I called, but he never called back. >> Any Ideas? Does anyone have a contact at the ARRL, or know a communications >> lawyer? Comcast/Xfinity will be back out here at 2pm Pacific time--I'd >> appreciate any help. >> My XYL depends on an internet connection to work. Being off the air is >> unimaginable. >> Frantic, >> >> 73, Eric WD6DBM > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
