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Old 09-06-2015, 07:17 AM
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If I can go off topic for just a moment. About 20 years ago I had a rather serious situation with a ham radio operator. One day I noticed the picture on my television was all snow and I can hear talking coming through. When I picked up my telephone I can hear talking before I even press the first number. I no longer had use of my television or landline phone. Based on the conversations I can hear from my television and phone, I had a gut feeling this was a ham radio.

I walked the neighborhood and found a 20 foot antenna in someone's backyard, about five houses away. I talked to the neighbor and learned they just moved in, a renter. I told him what I was experiencing. He said, it's not my problem. I called the regional FCC office, which happens to be in my city. They sent out a truck to see if he was in compliance with the power output of his antenna. He was in compliance. The FCC told me I would just have to live with it. We moved.

Please tell me you don't have this kind of problem in TV.
Not a problem I've ever experienced in TV.
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