Re: [IRCA] Noisy Cable TV

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It didn't take long for me to find out.

At 8pm the noise jumped to full scale; the DSL modem crapped out, but did 
come back after a while, an improvement; the noise was back on the 
telephone, though not so bad as before; and AM radio was relegated to 
listening to stronger stations on MW, no LW.

The ball is now in the cable company's court.

Curt


At 07:16 PM 10/10/2006, W. Curt Deegan wrote:
>The Ongoing Saga of Cable TV Noise and the Repairmen, part II:
>
>In the previous installment of this story, last week the cable guy had
>showed up to assess the problem, but on a day and at a time which happened
>to be when the noise level was at its lowest level.  Still he did find
>noise on the cable and submitted a work request to maintenance, scheduled
>for sometime this week.
>
>Today -- in response to my reporting noise heard on my telephone when the
>radio monitored noise level was at its worst -- the phone guy arrived and,
>of course, the noise was at its lowest level.  Indeed, for the first time
>since this all began, the noise level has not yet ramped up even after 7 pm.
>
>If nothing else, I've found a way to stave off the noise: schedule 
>maintenance.
>
>The phone guy was very willing to listen even though he had never heard of
>such a thing before, nor had a fellow repairman he happened to receive a
>call from.  I kept saying the same thing over and over in the belief if I
>said it enough he would suddenly think he had heard it somewhere
>before.  He did seem to become more willing to allow that I might not be
>completely crazy.  I even dropped the Electrical Engineer rubric on him,
>for what it's worth.
>
>He tested vigorously and reported that my phone line did have a problem --
>precisely what I didn't catch, just not as good as it should be, I
>gathered.  He replaced my connection from the junction box on my house all
>the way to the junction box somewhere removed where the area connections
>congregate.  This was accomplished by swapping pairs from what I had to
>ones that tested better.  He believed that would solve my problem with DSL
>disconnects and outages.  I can only way to see if that is the case.
>
>I have not heard back from the cable company yet, so I don't know if
>anything has been done by their maintenance people.  The absence of the
>usual afternoon onslaught of noise gives me cause for hope, but I will have
>to way to see on that too.
>
>While I'm less convinced solar heating is the primary cause, it is still
>typical that cloudy days have the noise occurring later in the day than
>sunny ones, so it does play some role.  Today has been overcast, as it was
>the day the cable guy was here.
>
>Whatever the reason for the lowered noise level, today I was able to hear
>some weaker stations on AM that had been completely blanketed by the noise
>on previous afternoons.
>
>Part III to follow (Cable Maintenance Checks In).
>
>Curt
>-------
>W. Curt Deegan
>Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida


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