Question for those of you who are currently familiar with the cable companies technical operations these days.
What frequencies are the cable companies using for field leakage testing? Might be handy to know if we, the radio people community, are to deal with the cable companies leakage problems. 47 CFR, Section 76.609 describes how to make the field measurements. 73, Neil McKie - WA6KLA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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: [email protected] > 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/
