There are numerous reports on the web from hams experiencing RFI from and to Uverse. My main point is AT&T was complaining about receiving RFI, without keeping their own house clean. 73, Art NK8X
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Art, > > I have uVerse, as do a lot of neighbors around here, and a huge > development on the other side of US64 from me is mostly uVerse, > > Of all the noises I have chased around here, uVerse has only been > responsible for very weak continuous tones, and those seem to have > gradually disappeared since they quit installing 2Wire 3800 gateway boxes > in favor of newer technology. I don't hear any of them today, as an > information point. > > The old faithful dirty dozen of motor speed controllers, plain ole power > line buzz, plasma TV's, etc is really unchanged in the last ten years. I > haven't heard solar controllers yet. In any event, absent the dirty dozen, > the local background around here is S3/S4 and disappears in the band noise > as the band opens up. The S6, S7 is coming from ELSEWHERE, and requires an > open band to get here. > > In that North American continental band noise, the real killer is > lightning QRN. There is almost never a day any more that does not have > lightning in North America somewhere, that is the controlling noise absent > the dirty dozen. Shall we add global warming to the list of culprits for > forever robbing us of QRN free winters? There is no doubt on this last > issue as such internet tools as http://en.blitzortung.org/ > live_lightning_maps.php tell you 24 hours where all the static is coming > from. It also shows the powerful lightning storms that occur in dead of > winter now out over our east coast water that have nothing to attenuate > them coming back to harass our receivers. I have only noticed one lightning > free evening in North America this fall, soon to be official winter. > > What is your rationale and data for dumping on uVerse? Not that they can't > be responsible for crap. But basis in fact to start with? > > Not that I'm a fan, particularly, of everything AT&T does. BUT, we never > help ourselves any by pointing fingers where the point is not specifically > deserved. I got lots of street cred with them in getting a long term fix > for my QRO 160 getting into uVerse and rebooting 3800 gateway boxes, by > being specific, religiously factual, cooperative, giving them time to > figure things out, and being willing to try out new aspects to a fix one at > a time. They finally nailed it and have a book to repeat the fix for other > hams with 160/80/40 getting into gateway boxes. > > Feeding them BS complaints would have derailed the entire improvement > process. > > 73, Guy K2AV > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Art Snapper <a...@nk8x.net> wrote: > >> It is ironic to see AT&T's filings, since their uVerse product is >> responsible for quite an increase in the noise floor on HF. >> >> Art NK8X >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:18 AM, <daraym...@iowatelecom.net> wrote: >> >> > Greetings topbanders. . .we’ve had discussions before on the ever >> > increasing noise floor. Looks like we’re not the only ones paying >> > attention. I live in the country well outside the Des Moines area. In >> the >> > past five years or so my noise floor has gone from –125 or –130 dbm to >> > about –100 db (or worse) as measured at daytime on my quarter wave >> vertical >> > with a bandwidth setting of 0.4 KHz. It appears to be due to >> construction >> > of a few new houses even though they are 0.5 mile or more away. See the >> > link below: >> > >> > http://www.radioworld.com/article/noise-floor-where-do- >> > we-go-from-here/300031 >> > >> > 73 with the compliments of the Season. . . Dave, W0FLS >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _________________ >> > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband