KAXN-9546 wrote:
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've seen lo-pass and high-pass have -no effect- because of fundamentals
and cheap home electronics. In the end you still have to deal with a ****ed
of neighbor.