When I fired up my first transmitter as a novice (a DX-20!), little did I know it was leaking into a break in the coax cable in the attic.
I found out two days later when a ham I'd never met copied my callsign off his TV. He looked me up in the callbook (I was a few blocks from his place), introduced himself, and helped me find and repair the cable. I ended up with a clean signal and a great Elmer. But this is not the good ol' days, apparently. Wayne N6KR > On Oct 20, 2021, at 1:22 PM, K4HYJ via Elecraft <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I had a ham friend who went through a similar situation with Charter - now > Spectrum. He called the state's public service commission to lodge a > complaint against Charter. > > Long story short, the public service commission sent a representative out in > the field and they had the ham radio guy transmit while witnessing the > "interference" in the neighborhood. They saw issues but not at the same time > the transmitter was operating. Charter finally found 2 issues: a failing > power supply on a network amp, and some terrible signal leakage on improperly > terminated unused coax drops. > > Charter took the easy way out and blamed the ham as a CB operator operating > at illegal power levels. Obviously they had no proof and ultimately had to > fix their own problems. > > Xfinity around here is all fiber based. > > I'd also call the better business bureau! > > Hank > K4HYJ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Rich Lim via Elecraft > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:35 PM > To: eric norris <[email protected]>; Frank Krozel <[email protected]> > Cc: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] HELP! XFINITY SHUT OFF INTERNET DUE TO HAM ANTENNAS > > Wow! Doesn't seem to make sense... so they believe that by shutting down your > home internet that you will stop operating your station which allegedly is > causing the interference? > > Or do they believe that by the sheer fact that Xfinity is connected to your > home that your station is causing harmful interference which is being > transmitted directly into your home box? > > I'm gonna follow this one closely. > RichKQ9L > > > ___________________________ > Think different, Macintosh. > > > > > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the > addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or > confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this > e-mail (or the person responsible for delivering this document to the > intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution, printing or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments > thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please respond to the individual sending the message and permanently delete > the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. > > > > On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 01:25:48 PM CDT, Frank Krozel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cameras? Any ID card from him? > Intolerable from any company, let alone your provider. > > -73- Frank KG9H > [email protected] > > > > >> On Oct 20, 2021, at 1:21 PM, eric norris via Elecraft >> <[email protected]> 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] > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
