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

Wed Oct 20 17:23:34 EDT 2021

This is rather interesting. Last year my local borough contacted me about
my antenna support. It is 30 feet high and is my end support for my EFHW. I
was asked when did I install the pipe? I said 15 years ago, why? I was
promptly told that the boroughs 1.2 GHz comm link between the pump house
and well head three miles up the road, was intermittent. I am in a valley
compared to the well head and their link receiver. In that past year the
electric company installed two tall towers for distribution lines a couple
hundred yards between the well head and my QTH.  I was the suspect, non the
less.
Turned out to be the antenna at the well head.
K3bo

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 4:31 PM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> When I fired up my first transmitter as a novice (a DX-20!), little did I
> know it was leaking into a break in the coax cable in the attic.
>
> I found out two days later when a ham I'd never met copied my callsign off
> his TV. He looked me up in the callbook (I was a few blocks from his
> place), introduced himself, and helped me find and repair the cable. I
> ended up with a clean signal and a great Elmer.
>
> But this is not the good ol' days, apparently.
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
>
> > On Oct 20, 2021, at 1:22 PM, K4HYJ via Elecraft <
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> >
> > I had a ham friend who went through a similar situation with Charter -
> now Spectrum.  He called the state's public service commission to lodge a
> complaint against Charter.
> >
> > Long story short, the public service commission sent a representative
> out in the field and they had the ham radio guy transmit while witnessing
> the "interference" in the neighborhood.  They saw issues but not at the
> same time the transmitter was operating.  Charter finally found 2 issues: a
> failing power supply on a network amp, and some terrible signal leakage on
> improperly terminated unused coax drops.
> >
> > Charter took the easy way out and blamed the ham as a CB operator
> operating at illegal power levels.  Obviously they had no proof and
> ultimately had to fix their own problems.
> >
> > Xfinity around here is all fiber based.
> >
> > I'd also call the better business bureau!
> >
> > Hank
> > K4HYJ
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> On Behalf Of Rich Lim via Elecraft
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 2:35 PM
> > To: eric norris <gliderboy1955 at yahoo.com>; Frank Krozel <
> kg9hfrank at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] HELP! XFINITY SHUT OFF INTERNET DUE TO HAM
> ANTENNAS
> >
> > Wow! Doesn't seem to make sense... so they believe that by shutting down
> your home internet that you will stop operating your station which
> allegedly is causing the interference?
> >
> > Or do they believe that by the sheer fact that Xfinity is connected to
> your home that your station is causing harmful interference which is being
> transmitted directly into your home box?
> >
> > I'm gonna follow this one closely.
> > RichKQ9L
> >
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> >    On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 01:25:48 PM CDT, Frank Krozel <
> kg9hfrank at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Cameras?  Any ID card from him?
> > Intolerable from any company, let alone your provider.
> >
> > -73-  Frank    KG9H
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Oct 20, 2021, at 1:21 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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