Re: [IRCA] Wi-Fi legality (OT)

[Tim Kridel <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never had interference from cable or sat in
the 15+ years that I've had them.


> From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:11:35 -0400
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> Patrick Martin wrote:
> 
>> I did not spend hundreds
>> of hours of grounding, shielding, etc to just run a piece of coax into
>> the house to permanently mess up my DX. I would rather do without a
>> computer completely, before I would lose my DX.
> 
> It occurs to me that your local cable company may have some bigger
> issues if it's really that leaky.
> 
> One of the technical standards that the FCC still bothers to enforce,
> and to issue fines on (sometimes), is leakage from cable systems. A
> properly-operating cable system shouldn't have any detectable outside
> emissions. I have Time Warner cable right into the same room that's my
> DX shack, and it's never given me any issues.
> 
> Why is this the FCC's problem? Because cable systems use frequencies
> that are licensed for over-the-air use by other services, some of them
> very important...like, say, the aircraft navigation systems that use the
> same frequencies that are cable channels 14-16, and the military
> communications that take place on the same frequencies that are cable
> channels 22 to about 35.
> 
> The problem, of course, is getting the FCC's attention. It's my
> understanding that the Enforcement Bureau is especially painfully
> understaffed in the Pacific Northwest.
> 
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