re cable tvi interference in article qevrf t hpscit sc hp com writes as is typical nowadaze you will probably have to do somebody else s job for them although this shouldn t be needed you might take a few minutes to wander around the neighborhood with an ht sniffing for cable leakage on your freq after shutting down your system for a while if you are fortunate enough to the find the hole call the cable company and get the highest link in the chain of command you can explain the problem whose job it really is to maintain their equipment and how much of a nice guy you are to have tracked down their problem for them you may have been lucky and made a new contact that could be helpful in the future you should always try the honey approach before bringing out the jack nicholson impressions this has worked for me in the past with the power company when tring to find loose noisy high voltage lines hardware only once did i have to tell them i was narrowing the problem down to a specific pole by bumping a whole line of poles with my car got em out there that night and they didn t have to meet jack as a disclaimer their method for finding loose hardware was usually whacking the poles with a huge sledgehammer after their high tech arc finding scope couldn t find the problem bill wb rotten zucchini garden here in switzerland the situation is exactly the same the cable tv companies even tried to stop amateur radio in switzerland in the beginning of cable tv they seem to be too stupid to know anything about international frequency conferences or so even today they use the cheapest possible coax running into problems they can t solve anymore as bill noted the only way is to look for a solution with the neighbours before calling for the cable tv guys or the fcc the chance to find neighbours with some sense for reason is by far bigger than with these people especially the first ones as anywhere in an administration people don t like if you tell them to work for the money they get the problem is that radio amateurs don t have the power to put trough their rights in all cases so let s hope they start soon with optical fibers and get out of our freqencies cheers robert hb nby robert ganter universitaet basel i am a fan institut fuer informatik of my plan basel switzerland ganter ifi unibas ch amateurradio hb nby packet hb nby hb eas che eu
