Alan Gomes wrote in
:

Larry wrote:
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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......

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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....