Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-28 Thread Ken Hohhof
ir TV directly to cable anyway, wouldn't there be a set top box? Sounds like something was broken or connected wrong, not just old. From: AF On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 11:54 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-28 Thread Robert
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Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-28 Thread Mark Radabaugh
: st...@wavedirect.org | P: 519-737-9283 > W: www.wavedirect.net > > From: "dave" > To: "af" > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 9:21:20 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs! > > That site triggered some site guards that firefox has LOL &g

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-28 Thread Steven Kenney
nt: Monday, September 28, 2020 9:21:20 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs! That site triggered some site guards that firefox has LOL On 9/24/20 7:14 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Did you read the story about the village in Wales: [ https://www.cnet.com/news/an-old-tv-crashed-entire-t

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-28 Thread dave
That site triggered some site guards that firefox has LOL On 9/24/20 7:14 PM, Bill Prince wrote: Did you read the story about the village in Wales: https://www.cnet.com/news/an-old-tv-crashed-entire-towns-broadband-every-day-for-more-than-a-year/ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http:/

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread Chuck McCown
Very good point. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2020, at 7:33 PM, TJ Trout wrote: > >  > Or back feeding interference to the cmts > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 6:18 PM Chuck McCown wrote: >> Every receiver has a local oscillator. They use UHF there. Maybe a front >> end amp was unstable. A

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread Steve Jones
It was cable according to the article I read. They said they replaced all the cable infrastructure and it was still present so they took the "extreme" measure of bringing in a spectrum analyzer. Which seems odd and backward to me. On Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 9:14 PM Bill Prince wrote: > Got the impres

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread Bill Prince
Got the impression that it was cable internet. bp On 9/24/2020 6:18 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: Every receiver has a local oscillator. They use UHF there. Maybe a front end amp was unstable. And the house was next to a major cluster of APs. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 24, 2020, at 6:38 PM, K

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread TJ Trout
Or back feeding interference to the cmts On Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 6:18 PM Chuck McCown wrote: > Every receiver has a local oscillator. They use UHF there. Maybe a front > end amp was unstable. And the house was next to a major cluster of APs. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 24, 2020, at 6:38

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread Chuck McCown
Every receiver has a local oscillator. They use UHF there. Maybe a front end amp was unstable. And the house was next to a major cluster of APs. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2020, at 6:38 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > Smells like BS, and they don't give enough details to convince me otherwi

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Watch out for old TVs!

2020-09-24 Thread Ken Hohhof
Smells like BS, and they don't give enough details to convince me otherwise. What type of Internet infrastructure do they have, and how was an old TV disrupting it? Didn't Chuck have a story about every time the phone rang the dog would howl or something like that? -Original Message- From