[Elecraft] HELP! XFINITY SHUT OFF INTERNET DUE TO HAM ANTENNAS

[Peter Wollan]

We just switched to getting internet through T-Mobile, a cell phone
connection.  It's a hotspot, but fairly large and more capable than the
little dongles.  Not blazingly fast, but good, and reasonably priced.

  Peter W0LLN

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 1:22 PM eric norris via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Dear Gang:
> Xfinity, our internet provider, showed up at 7:30am this morning, to
> explain to the XYL that we were being cut off for good because my amateur
> radio activities had caused wide area outages.  Oddly, these wide area
> outages did not include my own house.  They told her the antennas
> themselves--absent any power--were the problem
> The last time I was threatened, I installed chokes and opto-isolaters on
> our shielded ethernet lines, and after being told they use 14Mhz as their
> carrier frequency, I have stayed off 20m, only using 100w unless I'm in a
> rare contest.  I asked to speak to a technical guy--they gave me a number
> which I called, but he never called back.
> Any Ideas?  Does anyone have a contact at the ARRL, or know a
> communications lawyer?  Comcast/Xfinity will be back out here at 2pm
> Pacific time--I'd appreciate any help.
> My XYL depends on an internet connection to work.  Being off the air is
> unimaginable.
> Frantic,
>
> 73, Eric WD6DBM
>
> 
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