[rescue] Re: BBQ

[Ken Hansen]

Clay,

Your "problem" was, I think, unusual, in that you were the only licensed
operator in that situation. The local cable company was doing something
without a license (feed over a closed cable link I assume), and you were
*obviously* licensed for two meters, the dispute was easy to resolve...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Mellender" <claym at mellender.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: BBQ


> Oddly enough, if your equipment is working properly and you are
> licenced for the frequencies that are causing the interference you dont
> have to do anything to correct/reduce the problem. In the late 70's the
> local cable company was somehow running HBO at 148 Mhz. Whenever I was
> transmitting on my 2 meter single sideband radio with the 5 foot beam,
> half of Madison (WI) was able to hear my half of the conversation
> (Especially when pointed downtown!).
>   Polite requests from the cable company fell on my deaf ears (I dont
> have much use for TV). They complained to the FCC, and were told that my
> licence allowed me to use the 2 meter band, and my equipment(I-COM
> "IC-211") more than met the standards for interference, harmonics, and
> the like. All of a sudden, about six months later, letters were sent out
> to all subscribers informing them that their cable "Box" would be
> "Upgraded" in the course of the next few months.  It must have been
> really expensive to change frequencies and replace all the cable
> converters in Madison. Fortunately for them, in 1978 or '79 there
> couldnt have been more than 10,000 or so subscribers:)



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