>>  JE> well worth it to, for their attitude.  A slander suit comes to
 >> Too much of a problem to even bother.
 JE> Not only for yourself, but check with some other HAM's up there, and
 JE> possibly a class-action suit against Rogers Cable could be benifitial to
 JE> everyone involved!
 None are interested in pursuing it,nor in trying to help me resolve it.
 I am going to let it sit as it is and use the large beams for TV.
 >> Now if I TVI they can blow it out their ears.
 JE> But, what does it prove?
 When the IOC comes a knocking I'm ready for it.
 They can test my gear,it'll pass inspection and I have all the needed 
filters inline all the time. I no longer TVI'ing our own TV upstairs,and it 
is getting its signal off-air from the TV beams now instead of cable.
 I'll take them on a little `tour' of several of the local CATV junction 
boxes in my area and show them how much signal is radiating out from 
distances of as little as 50 feet and as far away as 2 blocks away from the 
boxes.
 I'll take them over to the house across the street who has such crappy CATV 
he gets 2 channels on the same spot on the dial on his new 1997 home theatre 
TV.
 Their system is garbage and they deny it,blaming me and my `modified' gear 
for the problem when it is their own garbage installation that is at fault.
 When an inspector shows up and sees the signal levels splattering out across 
a wide variety of both the amateur and commercial frequencies around here 
then something will happen. (preferably CATV getting told where to go!)
 >> The station is `squeeky clean' from an RF standpoint
 JE> If the "powers that be" don't know about the installers and their
 JE> attitudes, who's going to know? (Besides us, and what can -we- do about
 Talked to a `big cheese' in the head office.
 He said they would `investigate ' and find out exactly why their 
installation inspector behaved as he did and let me know.
 2 weeks later and all I get is a voice-mail instead of a human at his 
umber,
and still no response from them about their findings.
 Guess he's busy taking care of it...
 JE> Went to a swapfest in Belton, TX (near Temple, between Austin and Waco) 
and
 JE> picked up not only another Johnson Viking II, but also got a Kenwood
 JE> TR-9000, multi-mode VHF 10w transciever.  Now, to get busy and build me 

 JE> pair of 13-element yagis, and shove 'em up at 40'!
 I used to have one of those! It was my first 2m all-mode rig for the house.
 A `blistering' 11w on ssb/cw and 1w to 8w on FM.
 Looked like the big HF rigs of the time (late 1980) and had some of the same 
features too. (RIT,dual VFO's for odd-splits,memories)
 I sold mine to get something newer (TM-255A) as the 9000 did not have a 
CTCSS encode/decode option for it. (several rptrs went to CTCSS on inputs)
 Nice little rig for a field-day or rover set-up,just add an outboard 
amplifier
to get you up to 100w or so into a beam and you're all set.
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