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[genlock]

The FCC is in town (Huntington) looking for he source of interference to HPD, HFD, Cabell sheriff, CCEMS VFD's and others on the
450 mhz bands. The signal is a pulsing carrier that is apparently in the 458 range and maybe very wideband.
It sounds like a rapid ticking (2 per second) and will take out mobiles and portables.
Maybe they will take time out from this routine task to do something important.
Like check everybody's public files.

[Cameron]

F&L was looking at their analyzer from an antenna about 400ft on our South Point tower and didn't see crap.
Their Rotary towers and Barboursville are getting creamed.
B & C Communicatons was on Tarpin trying to spot the problem last week.

I get the first bet and say it's coming off of the great Homeland Security beacon one calls the Cuttingham Tower.

Any takers?

I loved the Ford Explorer that they had in last time. The antenna-array and direction-finding gear was embedded in the roof.
I would hope that the gear has been upgraded.
The plates were either a choice of Maryland, or Guv'ment.

(Two days early on the Quarterly Issues/Program Lists - thank you very much).

[genlock]

Cuttingham Tower?

Never heard of it.

[Cameron]

Cuttingham Tower?

Never heard of it.

Spectra-Site or somebody has it now. Coast Guard 2-way and data systems, Ohio State Police, Homeland Security, FBI and 300 square feet of floor space for everyone else.

Up around where WSAZ radio's tower was - pre 1947.

[genlock]

Cunningham tower.
Up on west road.
Big tall one.

[genlock]

The only new radio services that I know of is cell towers out toward Wayne.
The interference is bad today.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Cunningham tower.

Named after Morris Cunningham, owner of Cunningham's TV and Radio Repair.

Now deceased.

Cunningham was Huntington's original Motorola factory authorized two-way radio service depot.

F&L Electronics took over when Morris got out of the biz in the early 80s.

[engineer]

A number of recent cases in Western PA have resulted in the burden being placed upon the person getting interfered with to scientifically prove it. The FCC lost control of VHF and UHF channels years ago. 450 MHz is now what 150 MHz was ten years ago. UHF trunks with Homeland Security grants have caused more than a few stinks. You're likely to lose any case against the federal gov, even if you're a local or state gov. agency. Now, please switch to channel blue. I mean red!

[sportsvoice]

I've noticed the occasional random noise (sounds like intermod or something) getting into UHF band RPU feeds from football game sites. I just kind of wrote it off to something intermittent that wasn't worth trying to track down.

[Big Media]

Maybe they will take time out from this routine task to do something important.
Like check everybody's public files.

Bring it, bitches!

[Dave Harman]

Agreed.
Maybe they could swing through the center of the state and check some power and modulation levels while they're in the area.

[oldtvman2]

several years ago WOWK was being intefered with during the day. i can't remember but i believe it was with sat reception. this had a pulse aporx every 2 sec. we noticed that it would start at a given time in the morning and quit at the same time each day. we thought it was radar at the airport. after much work by Dave Payton it was discovered to be a car radar unit in a car parked in the area.

[oldtvman2]

note this was a radar detector in the car not a radar speed gun. owner didn't turn it off. i wonder if it could be coming from a sat radio receiver local oscilator??

[engineer]

Agreed.
Maybe they could swing through the center of the state and check some power and modulation levels while they're in the area.

Power is one thing, but it seems the FCC could care less about modulation levels. The last two inspections I was on they did require indirect calculations to prove AM power and FM power. This is a good thing! I've been on many where they would look at a Bird or BCM and walk away.

[genlock]

Interference still there.
It varies in intensity and seems to drift a bit, sometimes leaving some services alone.
Not a radar detector or sat rcvr as effect is too widespread.

[Cameron]

Interference still there.
It varies in intensity and seems to drift a bit, sometimes leaving some services alone.
Not a radar detector or sat rcvr as effect is too widespread.

I'm tellin' you....this is the Guv'ment chasing the Guv'ment.

[genlock]

Interference seems to be gone.

Anybody know what/where it was?

[Best Music]

Dirty paging transmitter?

[genlock]

Interference traced to an AEP site near Kiahsville in southern Wayne county.
That's past East Lynn on WV route 37, nearly to Harts creek.
Strangely this was a trunking setup on 800 mhz.
APCO turned the thing off and that fixed it.

[cgarison]

Interference traced to an AEP site near Kiahsville in southern Wayne county.
That's past East Lynn on WV route 37, nearly to Harts creek.
Strangely this was a trunking setup on 800 mhz.
APCO turned the thing off and that fixed it.

Telemetry setup gone awry?