Agreed :) The larger culprit locally, at least in my part of SW Idaho, is leakage from commercial power transmission...
Ingress on an analog carrier from digital OTA tends to have a very intermittent C/NR reading... Our standard JDSU DSAM3600 meter has a difficult time detecting it as it's refresh rate is just a bit too slow. On the SDA5000, the "monitor" function that allows you to listen to the audio of a specific frequency, when on an analog CATV carrier with DTV OTA ingress, sounds like a very low "buzz saw" carrier on top of the audio carrier of the CATV channel - almost like listening to the raw audio of some of the military two way radio encryption... We insert a "warble" on to the lower portion of the audio carrier on CATV channel 17 - the CLI detectors scream all the time due to power leaks; it's the ones with the warble that we have the ability to fix. Average CATV leak (egress) in this system prior to fixing is usually about 40 mv/m. Average commerical power (transmission/distribution) leak pegs our CLI meters at well over 200 mv/m. 73s, AJ, K6LOR On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Chuck Kelsey <[email protected]> wrote: > My bet is that RF ingress will continue to cause CATV problems only now > it > will be harder to diagnose. The egress speaks for itself. > > Chuck > WB2EDV > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> As someone that works in the CATV industry... > >> > >> I'm truly looking forward to the analog-shutoff in February... > >> > >> No more "ghosting" trouble calls due to ingress... > >> > >> > >
