"Stereophile22" wrote in message
...
In addition, most homes are now wired for
cable, which is much better shielded than your basic HF antenna.

not true. My radio scanner proves that the cable companies are not
shielded.

Even when driving to the next county over, which is a different
cable company,
I still pick up the cable tv transmissions on my scanner, through
the air.

And even driving to the next city over, which is a third cable
company, I still
pick up the transmissions through the air.

NOne of them are shielded.

It ruins trying to listen to the communications bands on a bunch of
frequencies
above 30 MHZ.

Reporting it doesn't do any good, as all of the cable companies
refuse to fix
it.

Tell them you're getting their programming for free because
they have leaky systems. That'll change their tune real
fast. Time Warner locally has been well known for being
exceptionally greedy about that sort of thing.

--Mike L.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:40:42 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Tell them you're getting their programming for free because
they have leaky systems. That'll change their tune real
fast. Time Warner locally has been well known for being
exceptionally greedy about that sort of thing.

More likely they'll threaten to sue your ass for "theft of
services".