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Larry wrote:
snip If you want to be responsible for every blown light bulb, home appliance and TV cable outage....erect a 60' tower in your yard with a big ham radio antenna on it. You don't need a license or transmitter...... snip Right you are, Larry! I had a 65'crank up tower with a very large 4-element cubical for 20 and 15 meters mounted on it and I used to get complaints all the time, even when I COULD NOT have been causing the problem. While I was away to the University at Santa Barbara in 1975, living in the dorms, my dad had an irate neighbor storm over and *insist* that my ham station was wiping out his TV. My dad told the guy that this was impossible as I was living over 100 miles away and couldn't be operating the station if I wanted to! He even invited the guy in to see for himself that the station was unoccupied. Still, he was convinced that the interference on his TV just *had* to be my fault! 73's, Alan Gomes (W6AWG) |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:07:30 +0000, Larry wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote in : The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment. FCC guys are no fun at all with TV viewers breathin' down his neck bitching up a storm.... FCC showed up at my house to inspect the 1500 watt ham station from a neighbor's complaint. We went through the motions on the Collins S-line I was running at the time, the finest equipment of the day. After coffee and donuts (Hey! He's a cop..of sorts!) I invited the FCC guy to the neighbor's house so he could take Polaroids of the complainant's television antenna, a pair of 99c rabbit ears duct taped to a branch of the oak tree over her porch with several pieces of twinlead duct taped together to reach the 13" Korean PoS $79 TV she watched...when she could. When I lived in Riverside, I had a woman come to the house bitching about my Ham station. Told me that I had "ruined" her TV, had to call a repairman who was at the house now. I volunteered to go to her house NOW and talk with the TV guy. On the way over to her house she told me that she could hear me talking on her TV. When we got there the TV guy was there and you could hear someone talking on her TV, "Breaker, breaker, this is the rubber duck......." I asked her how it could be ME talking on her TV when I was RIGHT HERE? Then asked the TV guy about ruining her TV. He laughed and said, "it just needed degaussing". I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out to the FCC. Cheers, Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:38:36 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:07:30 +0000, Larry wrote: Bruce in Bangkok wrote in m: The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment. FCC guys are no fun at all with TV viewers breathin' down his neck bitching up a storm.... FCC showed up at my house to inspect the 1500 watt ham station from a neighbor's complaint. We went through the motions on the Collins S-line I was running at the time, the finest equipment of the day. After coffee and donuts (Hey! He's a cop..of sorts!) I invited the FCC guy to the neighbor's house so he could take Polaroids of the complainant's television antenna, a pair of 99c rabbit ears duct taped to a branch of the oak tree over her porch with several pieces of twinlead duct taped together to reach the 13" Korean PoS $79 TV she watched...when she could. When I lived in Riverside, I had a woman come to the house bitching about my Ham station. Told me that I had "ruined" her TV, had to call a repairman who was at the house now. I volunteered to go to her house NOW and talk with the TV guy. On the way over to her house she told me that she could hear me talking on her TV. When we got there the TV guy was there and you could hear someone talking on her TV, "Breaker, breaker, this is the rubber duck......." I asked her how it could be ME talking on her TV when I was RIGHT HERE? Then asked the TV guy about ruining her TV. He laughed and said, "it just needed degaussing". I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out to the FCC. It would be quicker to just pin his coax. |
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Alan Gomes wrote in
: Larry wrote: snip If you want to be responsible for every blown light bulb, home appliance and TV cable outage....erect a 60' tower in your yard with a big ham radio antenna on it. You don't need a license or transmitter...... snip Right you are, Larry! I had a 65'crank up tower with a very large 4-element cubical for 20 and 15 meters mounted on it and I used to get complaints all the time, even when I COULD NOT have been causing the problem. While I was away to the University at Santa Barbara in 1975, living in the dorms, my dad had an irate neighbor storm over and *insist* that my ham station was wiping out his TV. My dad told the guy that this was impossible as I was living over 100 miles away and couldn't be operating the station if I wanted to! He even invited the guy in to see for himself that the station was unoccupied. Still, he was convinced that the interference on his TV just *had* to be my fault! 73's, Alan Gomes (W6AWG) I got an FCC complaint notice in the mid 1960's I had to respond to about consistent TVI complaints at my home in Charleston. Unfortunately, for them, I was aboard USS Everglades (AD-24) in NAPLES, ITALY where the ship was servicing the 6th Fleet! I fired off a Navy speedletter, signed by my captain, to the FCC as evidence I was too far away to reach the power switch and asked the FCC engineers to go by my house to make SURE the coax cable from the antennas was STILL laying in the lawn where I left them upon deployment.... Three weeks later, I got a letter from the Savannah, GA, FCC engineer, Mr Sheehan, thanking me for my Navy service and saying, yes, my cables were in the yard where I left them. He'd gone by my house to see if it were ok....(c; Case dismissed.... |
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Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
: I did fix her TV for her though. Went round to the CB guy that lived on the next street, the one with the 1000 watt amp. Told him the next time I got blamed for his "breaker, breaker" B.S. I would rat him out to the FCC. FCC rules for CB USED to say the antenna height maximum was "20 ft above the existing structure", to leave room for a 5/8 wave vertical that was popular at the time. A favorite ham trick in SC was to wait for them to get the 270' tower with stacked 5-element beams optimum spaced erected and on-the-air.....then rat them out to the FCC who would tell them they had 30 days to take it all down, "or else". As soon as the tower was laying in the yard, we'd go over and offer him a couple of hundred dollars to take it off his hands, seeing as how he couldn't put it up any more......(c;] We got some really nice towers that way....cheap! |
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Wayne.B wrote in
: Have you tried getting a date with an 18 y/o babe? No problem if she sees you putting those hundred dollar bills in your wallet..... Try it. 18, huh. Nice "middle aged" broad......(c;] "When they're 16, all the part fit." |
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