JE>>> Sure - that's Cable TV! 
 >> No,that's Roger's Cable and crappy workmanship/inspection practices.
 JE> Hey!  We used to have "Roger's Cable" down here...  they got bought out 
by
 JE> someone else who's about as bas :-(
 Lucky for you! As of Sept. 30 we no longer have any cable TV here.
 Since they decided to not run a proper connection to deliver us a quality
signal and try to solve the TVI problem by replacing the feedlines to the 
house PROPERLY this time,we told them to lump it.
 Price was not worth the crappy service they delivered nor the smart-ass 
attitude of their so called `technicians' and supervisors..
 The new TV antennas and amps are ordered and the arrive next week and go up 
on
their own support mast as soon as they get here.
 >>>> They are replacing the ENTIRE run from pole to house next
 >>>> week.  At -their- cost not ours.
 JE>>> Remind them, if you're there, that Cable TV is supposed to
 JE>>> be a 'closed-circuit' system, free from electrical
 JE>>> interference.
 Did so.
 The smart-ass `supervisor's' response was for me to stop transmitting on my 
`CB radio' and the TVI would stop or take my radio to a `licenced technician' 
and have the radio -fixed- properly.
 I killed the CATV service right there by cutting the feedline to the house 
and
cancelling the service.
 The look on his face was priceless.
 JE> Cable companies, tend to be a monopoly, unfortunatlley.
 JE> So what did you come up with?  Anything better than what you had?
 Yep. No more CATV for us.
 We are going to a pair of the largest,high-gain TV beams I can get my hands 
on
and that is it. If I treated my own customers the way they (the cableguys) 
id
me I'd be out of a job faster than...
 IN one word..IDIOTS.
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