On Mar 31, 1:24 am, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:
"garlicman" None wrote in message

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I moved here about seven months ago. There is not HOA, but some neighbors
are rather sensitive to how others keep their property in our modest
street
of 34 homes on lots about 70 x 120. I just upgraded to General. So far,
I've
got a 40m dipole that is just strung across the back of the roof, but I
plan
to string it between a tree and the chimney when I get a chance.

I would appreciate your ideas on how to calm down neighbors that might be
worried about RF interference, appearance, and property value.

Reverse psychology. You make sure they're glad you're a ham.

You help one neighbor correctly wire an outside GFCI receptacle because you
know how and he doesn't (and he's already tripped the branch breaker six
times with his attempts); you give another neighbor your old CB antenna for
his boat (and you were done with it, anyway); you put an F-series connector
on a piece of RG-6 so the next neighbor can hook up her cable modem in a new
room (and she's a babe, too); you reflow the solder pads on a PC-mount RCA
jack because your neighbor's kid keeps pushing the plug of his video game
into the TV too hard (three times so far -- last time I gave it back with
two short pigtail jumpers so he wouldn't do it again.).

Four neighbors, four stories, all true and there are more. Heck, I could
put an air-search radar antenna on my roof and they wouldn't say anything!

Pretty much the same story here. occasionally. I get the new neighbor
that says something but the rest will put 'em straight. A little guilt
goes a long way too. I was accused of causing interference on their
TVs but I knew it wasn'.t me because I was on-the -air when they were
having problems. It turned out the guy that was complaining the
loudest had an antenna pre-amp on his tv that was breaking into
oscillation. i fed him a little humble pie but not too much. Since
then no problem.

Jimmie