This is rather interesting. Last year my local borough contacted me about my antenna support. It is 30 feet high and is my end support for my EFHW. I was asked when did I install the pipe? I said 15 years ago, why? I was promptly told that the boroughs 1.2 GHz comm link between the pump house and well head three miles up the road, was intermittent. I am in a valley compared to the well head and their link receiver. In that past year the electric company installed two tall towers for distribution lines a couple hundred yards between the well head and my QTH. I was the suspect, non the less. Turned out to be the antenna at the well head. K3bo
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 4:31 PM Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
