Comcast today odd signal story!

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to day i see a Comcast van driving very very slow down my street . the Comcast drivers looking at a meter in the truck as he driving like 5 mph. has his hazards flashing as he doing this .he was going down then he turn around and comes back up at 5 mph -no bull . he pulls just past my house and gets out and pulls out this gadget. it looked like something out of a movie . he pulls what looked like 2 antennas out the side of this grass green hand held gun. and it making a high pitched squeal sound .then he starts walking up to the house across the street . he going all around under the 2nd story front deck ,one side and the other of the home. the squeal gets stronger and weaker. then he starts knocking on there door .im on my front deck watching all this. i informed the guy that there is know one home .we get talking and he tells me why he was there .
this blow me away totally. i guess the cable equipment was having a problem and leaking the signal and it was interfering with the aircraft that flys overhead.
he left a red tag on the door and also told me that if the owner didn't. call comcast in 24 hours and make a appointment to do the repairs . then comcast would have to come back out and disconnect his service from the pole. any of you ever heard of a cable signal jamming a aircrafts signal ?

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i posted this on a diffrent forum and one person there replyed and said .
When I worked at the cable company we did the same thing. I always thought it was a little far fetched to think that it would interfere with aircraft too but thats what I was told. Who knows. Guess the next time a plane crashes we an blame on it the cable guy lol even I was not 100 % sure the guy wasn't feeding me a line of BULL. but i guess he was being stright about what and why he was there today.

cable signal screwing with a airplane sure seems out there do.

[ArkiStan]

crazy. if it can interfere with aircraft, who knows what else it's messing with. have you noticed any noticable changes in menstrual cycles, dream patterns, pee projectiles, etc?

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Q: What problems can signal leakage cause?

A: Cable signal leakage can interfere with any of the radio services that happen to be using the same frequencies as the cable operator within the vicinity of the cable system. Such interference, especially on the safety-of-life radio services, can disable the communications of safety personnel or airplane pilots. When such interference occurs, it can endanger the lives of the public and hamper the rescue efforts of safety personnel.

Q: Can signal leakage interfere with aircraft navigational and communications equipment?

A: Yes, there have been several documented cases of interference to aeronautical communications between airplanes and air traffic control.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/sig_leak.html

[DarkFury]

It's the ALIENS I tell ya!!! :eek:

[Markel]

Hmmm...when electricians were replacing my outside meter about a year ago, the sliced into my Comcast cable when they were digging. (They just nicked the outer sheath, so I sealed it up with some glue and everything seems to be working fine. I live directly on the approach to O'Hare runway 4 Right, so if anyone is flying in, you'd better watch out! :heh:

[johnnymk]

crazy. if it can interfere with aircraft, who knows what else it's messing with. have you noticed any noticable changes in menstrual cycles, dream patterns, pee projectiles, etc?

Now I know where my crazy dreams come from. And when I get up in the middle of night, I can't aim right into the turlet.

Who would have known? :shake: