Ham Radio Operators (from 5th Gen forum)

Brett: ... No worries Mike! Feel free to check in anytime! The net is open to any and all licensed hams. I checked in early (3rd person) and didn't get in there after that. Steve (N4UTQ) was speaking about his interfering with his neighbors TV broadcast antenna and then a guy from Edgewater has been trying to pull in TV from Tampa Bay, lost cause imho.
With the economy going south, more and more people are going to dump cable, satellite and web streaming expenses and go with over the air TV.
That could present a problem for Hams interfering with those signals in the future.


Thought I better move the topic to a more suitable place. With regard to the cable TV conversation, I have been advocating for years for people to consider switching to "over the air" TV signals. It's bad enough that TV providers charge us so much for their service but having us pay for the "privilege" of watching more and more TV commercials is pure insanity. Why do people do that? Wait, I do it (more accurately, the wife does it)... only because of the familiar phrase "Happy wife - happy Life.." She needs her sports - me, not so much in that the cost doesn't justify the entertainment. So one TV has cable (ugh) and the rest use cheap (really cheap) antennas....

Maybe one of these days we can hook up for lunch and do some 4runner talk or just see what we can laugh at in general..

Mike
K4FXR

 

...You obviously touched a nerve lol. Sorry for the rant. Ya think - ha ha ha. I feel ya for sure. My wife and I keep our finances separate - she pays the cable bill and also the ridiculous price for Florida Today - she's just old school but its her $$. I'm old enough to remember when the draw to cable was "no commercials" - sure it was only like $15 a month and maybe only 20 or so channels but there was value there - today not so much. I have 3 grown daughters who do not do the TV thing at all and their kids seem the better for it (well, one one is kidless..). My son is in Italy and I suspect they do whatever tv there is that's broadcast in English. Dad can survive just fine without TV but I do have to have my internet. You mentioned AT&T which is what we (wife) currently subscribes to - AT&T has twice in the last 15 years paid us $500 (real money) to switch to their service which probably greatly influenced her decision to leave Spectrum. The most recent $500 incentive went to the purchase of batteries for our solar system but she's been complaining lately of the increased monthly costs so hopefully I can wean her off the (satellite) again and hubby will cheerfully pay for the internet... Brett, I honestly don't know how to do the private msg thing on this forum - if I did I would provide a contact number. K4FXR