On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:39:40 -0400, "M-Tech"
wrote:

Modded or not, I *think* it's up to the radio operator NOT to interfere with
his/her neighbors.

I look at it this way;
If your cordless phone was making my garage door go up and down all night,
I'd expect YOU to remedy that situation.

I had a situation once where I was broadcasting through a next door
neighbors, well, let's just say a "type of piano you find in a church"
because I can't think of how to word it without it coming out wrong:-) That
was about 20 years ago when I was running 750 watts through stacked
moonraker IV's. I tried installing filters every where I could plug one in
but to no avail. So I stopped running the linear and all was well....it was
just a cheap splatter box anyway. We moved and I sold everything.

We actually just stopped in to see them a few months ago and she still has
and plays that "type of piano you find in a church" :-)

Don


Well Don, in a Good Neighbor type of way, you would think that the
owner/operator of the transmitting equipment would do "the right
thing" and resolve the interference issue. I agree that the operator
should take reasonable effort to do what they can. Example, a
neighbor nearby complained that my Amateur gear (unamplified, no more
than 70 watts to the antenna) was interfering with their TV. I put a
low-pass filter on my antenna feedline and haven't heard a word from
them since. Now granted, I'm operating under Part 97, and they are
owners of Part 15 devices, but since they live two houses down, I
figure maybe someone else might be hearing my SSB signal on their TV.
Turns out later that they're using a satellite system and their
internal wiring is point to point with SPEAKER WIRE!

Trust me. If the low-pass filter didn't do the job, I'd have sent
them packing and looking for other solutions. I made an effort.
Possibly a token effort, but still an effort beyond what the law
required.

Then again, unlike you, I tend to operate legally, and therefore I
have very few interference complaints and if I DID have any other
complaints, would be 100% legal in telling the owner of the Part 15
device that they need to look at THEIR installation first, THEN come
talk to me...


Raymond Sirois KAXN-9546
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