I've had a number of these issues in commercial 2-way / paging systems / ham repeaters I've maintained over the past years and the problem has always been a leak in the CATV system cabling somewhere, they use the ham band freq for TV. While there is always suppose to be isolation between the house taps on the CATV drops to homes, they may or may not be sufficient, once your signal get into the CATV system their broadband amps pass it along to others. I've seen all kinds of stuff you wouldn't believe people would do, but it happens. The last problem I had was a home owner who connected their cable TV connection to a coat hanger to radiate TV signal to another room in their house. A 1/4 KW VHF paging transmitter a half block away gained access into the CATV system (coat hanger seems to be a fairly effective antenna at VHF) and wiped out cable TV for about 10 city blocks.
Rob K7EI -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:17 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Repeater TVI Problem My 2 meter link on my repeater is causing TVI. This happens only on cable ch 18 on Charter Cable here in Yakima, WA. Any one have any ideas? This is only on the houses, say with-in 1/2 mile. Rod 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/ 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/
