[IRCA] TP for 11 Oct 2012 from Victoria: a struggle - indeed

["Colin Newell" <cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Walter Salmaniw said...
> A real struggle today to hear any decent audio.  The real winner seemed to
> be 567 with Radio National, Wellington with English news a few minutes
> after 14:00.  Deep fades to oblivion, followed some half decent
> audibility.

Walter did well - all things considered - my noise level
covered any hints of activity - not a hint.

I have scheduled an appointment with the Cable company
and advised Industry Canada (U.S. equivalent of the FCC) --
and they responded within 6 hours!

I thought I had a pretty good idea how CATV systems
work -- and my cable provider provides digital TV, internet
and telephone - so I am not quite sure why the entire
AM, SW and FM bands (and beyond) are blasted with hash
seemingly emanating from my cable TV wall drops.
Kind of ironic - up until a month ago or so, my 16 story
tower was a super quiet environment for radio listening
and ham radio activities.

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Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. DXer and Ham - VA7WWV
ICOM 703+ / DRAKE R8 / ETON E1 / Kenwood R2000
Antennas: Wellbrook ALA100's " Workman Verticals
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