historyt

Eureka

If your apartment is connected to an external antenna, call the cableco or the cableco contractor who did the work in your building. Ask to speak to a supervisor and tell them the contractors disconnected your over the air TV & FM reception.

historyt

no external antenna. There aren't any on the building, and my reception was good before anyway, so I didn't need one. I don't think the owner would let me put one up either.

Piggie

So you are on an indoor antenna?

If you were on an indoor antenna before and after, there is a chance they have a really bad leak in their cable system.

Try just tuning through the analog channels and see if you can see the cable signal. If you can, they have a big leak.

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bicker

And that is something that (1) they're very quick to act on when it is evident that it is the case; and/because (2) the authorities are quick to fine service providers for such leakage, FWIR.

Piggie

I called late one day, and the next day they were supposed to come. I called again, and reminded them legally they have to resolve this right away.

The guy came then the next day. Very nice guy. I told him I had turned my antenna and walked the lines with my portable and the leak was most likely a loose connector and showed him the line I thought was the problem.

He looked at me like I was crazy. He went about balancing all the amps which is good practice. Then he started on the opposite end of where I suggested and about an hour later, he found it within 100 ft of my suggestion, and it was a loose connector on the hardline leaving an amp.

If you see only channels 2-13, it's normally a loose connector

If you see mainly UHF channels (Super band on a UHF OTA tuner) then it's a crack in the shield, since the aluminum jacketed hardline they use can stress crack.

Low band means there is a massive leak and seldom happens because few things in a cable system are the right length to radiate an low band leak.

Once cable is all digital, it's going to be very hard to find cable leaks, without a lot of equipment.

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