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Old April 13th 06, 01:31 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Dave Platt
 
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Default Improving FM in building

In article ,
Ian Jackson wrote:
If they have cable TV in the club you can put a set of rabbit ears
in one of the outlets and see if that helps. A preamp may help too.


Irv,
Have you any idea about the lengths which cable TV operators go to to
keep their networks RF-tight (ingress and egress)? Feed an outlet into
antenna? Maybe not such a good idea!!


Yeah, that's likely to cause problems. The rabbit ears will "leak"
signals that the cable company has no right to be broadcasting... some
of the cable channels overlap with air-traffic control frequencies,
amateur radio, and so forth.

Complaints are likely to arise, either because the egress leakage from
the cable through the rabbit ears interferes with licensed radio
services, or because a licensed transmitter somewhere in the area of
the club leaks back into the cable and wipes out TV reception for
other cable customers.

Upon locating the source of the problem, the cable company *might* be
polite enough to simply insist on disconnecting and terminating the
cable outlet in question. Or (depending on how irritated their Cable
Guy is that day) they might just cut off the cable service to the club
entirely.

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