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Old August 20th 08, 05:49 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Geoffrey S. Mendelson Geoffrey S. Mendelson is offline
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DES wrote:

Cable. And the house was completely rewired inside and out about 4
yrs ago.

Just had the cable company out here last week, and they said there was
nothing they could do because everything was in working order.


Did things get better or worse when they did? It's simple to test,
just DISCONNECT the cable from your TV's and stereo and see what happens.
Make sure to unplug any cable boxes you have from the wall, because they
may be picking up the signal and leaking it into the power lines (rare
but not impossible).


No strange voices from them, wiggly pictures, etc, then it's likley a
cable problem.

Cable systems can have bad grounds, poorly installed connectors, improperly
sheilded amplifiers and so on too. As someone else said the cable company's
subcontractors are not always able to tell if anything is wrong with the
instalation or the equipment.

BTW. do you have a cable modem for the Internet? I'm guessing their is
a common thing here, and it's the cable system.

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM