From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb
Subject: Re: CB over the cable TV system ? ! (don't do it)
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:34:12 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <qZJ4RB1w164w@jab.tucson.az.us> cobra@jab.tucson.az.us (Cobra) writes:
+Gee, I'd LOVE to read that one...can ya cross-post it over here (if 
+possible)??

Here it is:

@Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
@From: rph@sq.sq.com (Pontus Hedman (VE3RPH))
@Subject: CB over cable TV (!)
@Message-ID: <1992Oct2.230205.14919@sq.sq.com>
@Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada

Just found this on packet. It refers to people xmitting CB over
the cable TV system.

I don't know anything about the cable TV, but this strikes me as pretty
suspicious. Bidirectional amplifiers?? 11m HF into all TVs on the block and
nobody complaining to the cable company within microseconds? Hmmmmmm...

> From        : WA3EQU        To        : ALLUS @ALLUSA
> Type/status : B$            Date/time : 920930 16:06
> Size        :  2411         Bid       : 8516_KA3JSD
> Msg nr      : 32575         Subject   : CB'ers WHAT NEXT
> 
> Path: !VE3RZR!VE3OY!VE3SNP!WA0PTV!KA3SFC!NM3G!KA3OEM!W3IXR!W8SP!KA3JSD!
> 
>   The other day I was at the local Radio Shack, and was chewing the fat
> with the clerk. I was commenting on how they had a corner on the market
> when it comes to TV accessories like cable splitters etc. I found out
> through our conversation that the clerk was a recently licensed
> ham.  Naturally the conversation turned to communication subjects, and
> then he floored me!!!! He had indicated that they were having a run on
> PL-259 to F adaptors. He asked the next guy that asked for one what he
> intended to do with it. The guy bubbled over on how when you hook your
> CB set to the cable TV line, you can talk over town with no
> interference. I know this could work on our system because all the line
> amplifiers are BI-DIRECTIONAL. Wow! Talk about TVI. And just wait until
> one of those wacko's fires up his footwarmer to talk further.
>   I for one loath the cable company due their price gouging and rotten
> selection of channels, but I wouldn't wish this abomination on them.
> Also keep in mind that the average person thinks CB and Amateur radio
> are the same thing. It behooves us to report this to the cable company
> if it occurring in our areas.
>   I wonder about the legalities of this practice. After all the CB'ers
> are not radiating (other than the normal cable leakage). Surly the
> illegal attachment to the cable could be pursued.
>   Locating the CB'ers would be a real problem because normal direction
> finding techniques aren't going to help. The only practical solution
> that I can think of is installation of high pass filters in the cable
> system, which would benefit the amateur community.
>   By the way the Radio Shack clerk refused to sell the adaptor to the
> CB'er and reported the incident to the cable company.
> 
>                >=-[End Msg #32575 To ALLUS  From WA3EQU]-=<

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As I said before, I do not recommend doing this!