Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Where I live - on a hill - if I have waterfront property, an awful lot of other people will be very wet. I'll try to get out to the garage today and look for you (radios) and Mike P. (manual) Neil Paul Finch wrote: Neil, You keeping your head above water? Send some of that rain this way! 2004 we had one of the wettest years on record, 2005 is one of the driest! Oh well, that why we love Texas, it's never the same and is always changing! To keep this on topic, did you have a chance to look for those radios? Paul -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:09 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT - funny interference story Especially when they are drunk. I suppose an opera being fed to your service monitor on the wireless mic frequency would do wonders to the Karaoke folks ... Neil skipp025 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very funny when you have to waste hours of time chasing these things down, knocking on doors explaining to total strangers that they have a nuisance generator within their premises. Bob NO6B Try having your 222.6 repeater input frequency on a nation-wide wireless mic frequency. Once again I'm getting Karaoke music into the repeater during open mic night. Sure is now making a frequency agile mic, which has the above frequency as a choice. I have to call the local bar and ask the music guy to pick another frequency. What makes it so bad is that most people can't sing. skipp Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Jay, Nope, I thought there would be more on this message board that knew Walt, at least his power supplies. Sorry for this OT post. Paul -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay Urish Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:33 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story h Walt Whitman? Paul Finch wrote: Hello, Another funny interference story, I may have put it on here before but it bears repeating. One of the Police repeaters in the area that the shop I worked for and maintained was getting a stable, slightly off-frequency signal modulated with a 1000 Hz tone but without CTCSS. It did not key up the repeater but interfered a lot with the HT's they were using. This had been going on for 2 or 3 days. The FCC was called and could not find it. The manager of the Water Department was a Ham and knew of another Ham that made a hobby of finding these problems. This guy had a van with a 22 element home made Yagi mounted on the top with a shaft going down into the cab, he used a pair of Vice Grips as a handle! Anyone know who this Guy is? He is also famous for the power supplies he builds. -- Jay Urish W5GM DCARA President ARRL Life Member TXFCA President ERS Vice-Prez Denton County ARRL VEC N5ERS VP/Trustee Monitoring 1292.30Ghz PL-100.0 441.375 PL-88.5 and 444.850 PL-88.5 Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
I finaly tracked down the .64 Beast after searching for 3+ years. My uncle broke down and drug out his IFR. It was a combination of a switch mode battery charger in a boat about 300 feet from the antenna to give me a perfect mix 600kHz off the transmit frequency, lower side band of course (still trying to figure that one out) that was so good that it would cause the repeater to occasionally feedback audio wise. Also some loose PL-259s on the capacitance stubs of the WP-639 duplexer causeing some desence after the inital problem was cured. Repeater was clocked at -121.5dB to open the squelch with no desense at 110W from the transmitter. Compare that to running at 5 watts to try to beat the mix and it still sounded like crap. Things are so good I am going to upgrade the antenna back to the station master clone after I rebuild it. Having proper test equipment makes all the difference in the world.On 1/12/06, Paul Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay,Nope, I thought there would be more on this message board that knew Walt, atleast his power supplies.Sorry for this OT post.Paul-Original Message-From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com[mailto:Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Jay UrishSent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:33 PMTo: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference storyh Walt Whitman?Paul Finch wrote: Hello, Another funny interference story, I may have put it on here before but it bears repeating.One of the Police repeaters in the area that the shop I worked for and maintained was getting a stable, slightly off-frequency signal modulated with a 1000 Hz tone but without CTCSS.It did not key up the repeater but interfered a lot with the HT's they were using.This had been going on for 2 or 3 days.The FCC was called and could not find it. The manager of the Water Department was a Ham and knew of another Ham that made a hobby of finding these problems.This guy had a van with a 22 element home made Yagi mounted on the top with a shaft going down into the cab, he used a pair of Vice Grips as a handle!Anyone know who this Guy is?He is also famous for the power supplies he builds.--Jay Urish W5GMDCARA President ARRL Life MemberTXFCA President ERS Vice-PrezDenton County ARRL VECN5ERS VP/Trustee Monitoring 1292.30Ghz PL-100.0441.375 PL-88.5 and 444.850 PL-88.5Yahoo! Groups LinksYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "Repeater-Builder" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
I have heard about video distribution amplifiers doing similar things, especially if the open connections are not terminated properly. (i.e. 50 ohm resistor/F-connector) A complex in southwest suburban Chicago area had the local police searching for several days before the ham found the source and disconnected it. Mark -N9WYS -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:26 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story At 1/11/2006 13:48, you wrote: We then went to the apartment across the hall. No one was home, so the apartment Manager opened the door with his master key, and we all went in. The first thing we tried was unplugging the aquarium heater, since they're often such a terrible electrical noise maker, but the signal was still there. Nothing else that we unplugged seemed to make the interfering signal stop, until we unplugged one AC cord going to something on the stereo system. It was an amplified FM antenna, which was a unit about a foot tall. The gain control on it was cranked up to about 8 out of 10, causing it to go into oscillation and radiate over a wide area. The FCC Inspector unplugged it completely, coiled up the AC power cord, and left it on a living room chair with some very important-looking paperwork which basically said DO NOT USE, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. The apartment manager promised to follow up with the owner of the unit with the details of our visit. The problem never returned! I think this particular problem is rather widespread. A couple of years ago one showed up on my 440 MHz repeater input. It was a mile away from the input RX site. Same thing: indoor amplified antenna. Another one occasionally shows up on my output. I've DF'd that one down to about a 4 house area but haven't found the exact house yet. Fortunately it's been gone for a while now. I also have a user that complains about an occasional dead carrier on my output when driving through a particular area. Not very funny when you have to waste hours of time chasing these things down, knocking on doors explaining to total strangers that they have a nuisance generator within their premises. Bob NO6B Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Neil, You keeping your head above water? Send some of that rain this way! 2004 we had one of the wettest years on record, 2005 is one of the driest! Oh well, that why we love Texas, it's never the same and is always changing! To keep this on topic, did you have a chance to look for those radios? Paul -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:09 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT - funny interference story Especially when they are drunk. I suppose an opera being fed to your service monitor on the wireless mic frequency would do wonders to the Karaoke folks ... Neil skipp025 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very funny when you have to waste hours of time chasing these things down, knocking on doors explaining to total strangers that they have a nuisance generator within their premises. Bob NO6B Try having your 222.6 repeater input frequency on a nation-wide wireless mic frequency. Once again I'm getting Karaoke music into the repeater during open mic night. Sure is now making a frequency agile mic, which has the above frequency as a choice. I have to call the local bar and ask the music guy to pick another frequency. What makes it so bad is that most people can't sing. skipp Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Back around 1990, we were having a problem on VHF with an interfering signal that drifted ever so slowly back and forth across 2-Meters and the VHF business band. One of the radio techs in our radio shop had a 2-Meter Repeater nearby, which would wind up being keyed up for long periods of time with a dead carrier as this interfering signal slowly drifted across the repeater's input frequency. He got out an IFR Service Monitor, and tracked the signal to an apartment building about two blocks away from the radio shop. He then contacted the FCC, and they contacted the apartment building Manager. We met about 9:00 A.M. a few days later, at the entrance to the apartment building with the apartment Manager, the FCC Inspector, and the IFR. After contacting the residents that were still in the building (many had already left for work for the day), we went to the main electrical panel for the building and started shutting off circuit breakers to sections of the building. One breaker made the interfering signal go away, so that narrowed it down to just a few apartments on one upper floor. We knocked on the door of the first apartment, and the Resident let us in after the apartment Manager explained who we all were, and what we were looking for. We unplugged just about everything in the apartment, but the signal remained. We then went to the apartment across the hall. No one was home, so the apartment Manager opened the door with his master key, and we all went in. The first thing we tried was unplugging the aquarium heater, since they're often such a terrible electrical noise maker, but the signal was still there. Nothing else that we unplugged seemed to make the interfering signal stop, until we unplugged one AC cord going to something on the stereo system. It was an amplified FM antenna, which was a unit about a foot tall. The gain control on it was cranked up to about 8 out of 10, causing it to go into oscillation and radiate over a wide area. The FCC Inspector unplugged it completely, coiled up the AC power cord, and left it on a living room chair with some very important-looking paperwork which basically said DO NOT USE, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. The apartment manager promised to follow up with the owner of the unit with the details of our visit. The problem never returned! Larry -Original Message- From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 10, 2006 5:00 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story This is a funny story from the Broadcast Engineering mail list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Castro Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:31 PM To: Broadcast Radio Technical Forum Subject: Re: [RT] Re: Local interference issues and lawyers We had a case many years ago here in Santa Rosa where an FM station moved its transmitter and a neighbor, who was a wealthy doctor, started complaining of major TV interference on all channels, and he demanded that the station stop transmitting and go away. The station owner could see that doctor's TV antenna was in very poor condition, and he offered to replace it for free, the was turned down. The doctor complained bitterly and regularly to the FCC until an inspector finally came out. The inspector pronounced the FM station clean, but he could see some other source of local interference in the area on his spectrum analyzer. Turns out it was the doctor's Radio Shack pre-amp on his broken-down antenna that had gone into self-oscillation and was cleaning out the whole neighborhood! By this time, the FCC had such a craw-full of the doctor that they issued him an NAL for causing interference. Ron Castro Chief Technical Officer Results Radio, LLC Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Very Interesting Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
At 03:58 PM 2006-01-11 -0600, you wrote: Very Interesting Agreed. Anecdotes like this are always worth reading. An excellent means of passing knowledge down the generations. Tony (a newbieish ham) Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Hello, Another funny interference story, I may have put it on here before but it bears repeating. One of the Police repeaters in the area that the shop I worked for and maintained was getting a stable, slightly off-frequency signal modulated with a 1000 Hz tone but without CTCSS. It did not key up the repeater but interfered a lot with the HT's they were using. This had been going on for 2 or 3 days. The FCC was called and could not find it. The manager of the Water Department was a Ham and knew of another Ham that made a hobby of finding these problems. This guy had a van with a 22 element home made Yagi mounted on the top with a shaft going down into the cab, he used a pair of Vice Grips as a handle! Anyone know who this Guy is? He is also famous for the power supplies he builds. The Ham did what the FCC could not, he was able to see the direction of the signal from the Repeater Site. He took off in that direction with the FCC in tow. He located the building where it was coming from, the Motorola manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The Guy took his portable tracking unit with the FCC man again in tow and entered the building. They introduced themselves to the receptionist, about one minute later 5 or so VP's appeared. The guy was then released to find the interference. They got to the room where it was coming from, there was a Cushman CE-3 turned up all the way (without the attenuator pad in-line) with a coax with the center conductor exposed and wrapped around a broom handle and pointed out the window directly toward the repeater site. Do you think some Motorola employee got a ticket sometime? Paul -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:48 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story Back around 1990, we were having a problem on VHF with an interfering signal that drifted ever so slowly back and forth across 2-Meters and the VHF business band. One of the radio techs in our radio shop had a 2-Meter Repeater nearby, which would wind up being keyed up for long periods of time with a dead carrier as this interfering signal slowly drifted across the repeater's input frequency. He got out an IFR Service Monitor, and tracked the signal to an apartment building about two blocks away from the radio shop. He then contacted the FCC, and they contacted the apartment building Manager. We met about 9:00 A.M. a few days later, at the entrance to the apartment building with the apartment Manager, the FCC Inspector, and the IFR. After contacting the residents that were still in the building (many had already left for work for the day), we went to the main electrical panel for the building and started shutting off circuit breakers to sections of the building. One breaker made the interfering signal go away, so that narrowed it down to just a few apartments on one upper floor. We knocked on the door of the first apartment, and the Resident let us in after the apartment Manager explained who we all were, and what we were looking for. We unplugged just about everything in the apartment, but the signal remained. We then went to the apartment across the hall. No one was home, so the apartment Manager opened the door with his master key, and we all went in. The first thing we tried was unplugging the aquarium heater, since they're often such a terrible electrical noise maker, but the signal was still there. Nothing else that we unplugged seemed to make the interfering signal stop, until we unplugged one AC cord going to something on the stereo system. It was an amplified FM antenna, which was a unit about a foot tall. The gain control on it was cranked up to about 8 out of 10, causing it to go into oscillation and radiate over a wide area. The FCC Inspector unplugged it completely, coiled up the AC power cord, and left it on a living room chair with some very important-looking paperwork which basically said DO NOT USE, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. The apartment manager promised to follow up with the owner of the unit with the details of our visit. The problem never returned! Larry -Original Message- From: JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 10, 2006 5:00 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story This is a funny story from the Broadcast Engineering mail list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Castro Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:31 PM To: Broadcast Radio Technical Forum Subject: Re: [RT] Re: Local interference issues and lawyers We had a case many years ago here in Santa Rosa where an FM station moved its transmitter and a neighbor, who was a wealthy doctor, started complaining of major TV interference on all channels, and he demanded that the station stop transmitting and go away
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
I concur... This is one of the most interesting groups I've had the pleasure of participating in. Indeed, a rare collection of talent in this group. Fairly new to the world of repeaters, Richard, N7TGB -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony VE6MVP Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:32 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story At 03:58 PM 2006-01-11 -0600, you wrote: Very Interesting Agreed. Anecdotes like this are always worth reading. An excellent means of passing knowledge down the generations. Tony (a newbieish ham) Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
- Original Message - From: Paul Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:53 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story Anyone know who this Guy is? He is also famous for the power supplies he builds. Name: Walt Wiederhold CALL: W5OGZ Status: SK W5OGZ is the club station of the Texas VHF-FM Society, Inc. The Society has, for over 40 years, served as the frequency coordination body for the state of Texas. The callsign commemorates Walt Wiederhold, who served for many years as the state frequency coordinator. More information on the Society, and on Walt, can be found at the Society's web site at http://www.txvhffm.org . Charles Miller Life Member Texas VHF-FM Society Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
Charles, No, it is a Walt though and he's not a SK. Paul -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Miller Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:27 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story - Original Message - From: Paul Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:53 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story Anyone know who this Guy is? He is also famous for the power supplies he builds. Name: Walt Wiederhold CALL: W5OGZ Status: SK W5OGZ is the club station of the Texas VHF-FM Society, Inc. The Society has, for over 40 years, served as the frequency coordination body for the state of Texas. The callsign commemorates Walt Wiederhold, who served for many years as the state frequency coordinator. More information on the Society, and on Walt, can be found at the Society's web site at http://www.txvhffm.org . Charles Miller Life Member Texas VHF-FM Society Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
h Walt Whitman? Paul Finch wrote: Hello, Another funny interference story, I may have put it on here before but it bears repeating. One of the Police repeaters in the area that the shop I worked for and maintained was getting a stable, slightly off-frequency signal modulated with a 1000 Hz tone but without CTCSS. It did not key up the repeater but interfered a lot with the HT's they were using. This had been going on for 2 or 3 days. The FCC was called and could not find it. The manager of the Water Department was a Ham and knew of another Ham that made a hobby of finding these problems. This guy had a van with a 22 element home made Yagi mounted on the top with a shaft going down into the cab, he used a pair of Vice Grips as a handle! Anyone know who this Guy is? He is also famous for the power supplies he builds. -- Jay Urish W5GM DCARA President ARRL Life Member TXFCA President ERS Vice-Prez Denton County ARRL VEC N5ERS VP/Trustee Monitoring 1292.30Ghz PL-100.0 441.375 PL-88.5 and 444.850 PL-88.5 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
At 1/11/2006 13:48, you wrote: We then went to the apartment across the hall. No one was home, so the apartment Manager opened the door with his master key, and we all went in. The first thing we tried was unplugging the aquarium heater, since they're often such a terrible electrical noise maker, but the signal was still there. Nothing else that we unplugged seemed to make the interfering signal stop, until we unplugged one AC cord going to something on the stereo system. It was an amplified FM antenna, which was a unit about a foot tall. The gain control on it was cranked up to about 8 out of 10, causing it to go into oscillation and radiate over a wide area. The FCC Inspector unplugged it completely, coiled up the AC power cord, and left it on a living room chair with some very important-looking paperwork which basically said DO NOT USE, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY. The apartment manager promised to follow up with the owner of the unit with the details of our visit. The problem never returned! I think this particular problem is rather widespread. A couple of years ago one showed up on my 440 MHz repeater input. It was a mile away from the input RX site. Same thing: indoor amplified antenna. Another one occasionally shows up on my output. I've DF'd that one down to about a 4 house area but haven't found the exact house yet. Fortunately it's been gone for a while now. I also have a user that complains about an occasional dead carrier on my output when driving through a particular area. Not very funny when you have to waste hours of time chasing these things down, knocking on doors explaining to total strangers that they have a nuisance generator within their premises. Bob NO6B Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[Repeater-Builder] OT - funny interference story
This is a funny story from the Broadcast Engineering mail list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Castro Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:31 PM To: Broadcast Radio Technical Forum Subject: Re: [RT] Re: Local interference issues and lawyers We had a case many years ago here in Santa Rosa where an FM station moved its transmitter and a neighbor, who was a wealthy doctor, started complaining of major TV interference on all channels, and he demanded that the station stop transmitting and go away. The station owner could see that doctor's TV antenna was in very poor condition, and he offered to replace it for free, the was turned down. The doctor complained bitterly and regularly to the FCC until an inspector finally came out. The inspector pronounced the FM station clean, but he could see some other source of local interference in the area on his spectrum analyzer. Turns out it was the doctor's Radio Shack pre-amp on his broken-down antenna that had gone into self-oscillation and was cleaning out the whole neighborhood! By this time, the FCC had such a craw-full of the doctor that they issued him an NAL for causing interference. Ron Castro Chief Technical Officer Results Radio, LLC Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
