A motorcycle which sounds like one of those 50cc learner bikes is interfering with the reception on my tv. When it passes my house, about 3 times a day, the screen is corrupted into an annoying mass of pixels which lasts for about 5-10 seconds.
Is there still a law that you must not have any equipment that interferes with radio or television receivers ?, if so and I manage to get the number plate of the offender what are my options?.
Mal.
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Ask the owner nicely to fit a suppressor?
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What and risk getting your face pushed in by some biking chav? The BBC or Home Office have a department to deal with this; give them the facts and let them get their faces pushed in!
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Mal
He's [she's?] fitted some wire-cored ignition leads by the sound of it.
IIRC [and it's a long time ago] they were made illegal under the Post Office and Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1977 as most unscreened installations couldn't meet the new limits.
Enforcement of this may now fall under Ofcom's purview.
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in here:-
www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/inter/tv/
Website's down at the moment, probably fitting suppressors to it.
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Good news is its doing it to everyone else down your street. I would just relax, odds are theres a Victor Meldrew who will stick his head above the parapet , get it dealt with and also `take` the brick through his window........ ;-)
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He has also taken the baffles out of the exhaust, only 50cc but also annoyingly loud. As for risking getting my face pushed in, but hey, isn't it a dam shame that honest "Victor Meldrews".......... am I getting like him :-o....... can't lawfully speaking their mind without unlawful repercussions.
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A well placed cop (if you can find one) or a PCSO could nobble him with a S59 Notice if you played your cards right.
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"isn't it a dam shame that honest "Victor Meldrews".......... am I getting like him :-o..."
I think I am...... more so every year. ( I didnt mean you, by the way ;=)
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my wife thinks i'm a Meldrew........i deny it of course........but with the anonymity of this place i'll admit it.
trouble is i can still remember what is was like on the 'other side'.....e.g whizzing around my home village at 16 on a 'fizzy' with no baffles and people complaining to my old dear about their T.V.'s (fortunately she didn't have a clue what they were on about).
I do now feel a tad guilty about it, but at the time didn't give two hoots. C'est La Vie.
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Last time I met Victor Meldrew, some years ago, he described me as a grumpy old git!
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Way back in 1965 when I was at college I designed a transistorised ignition system. The lab was five floors up and one day when I had this working beautifully I noticed a guy outside with headphones on and holding an aerial in front of him. I guess I blocked out communications over a wide area.
Switched it off instantly, of course, and he never did find me.
In the 50s Manchester University were in the forefront of computer design and developed a storage device using a cathode ray tube. It was fast and worked fine, but all data was lost every time a motorcycle went past.
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"trouble is i can still remember what is was like on the 'other side'"
It changed for me, ( swapping sides) age 15 when the school bus slowed right down, then the driver just floored it, a look of fear on his face.I had never seen that in an adult and thought we were just larking about `normally`at the bus stop.
But his look of fear said something different and I too was different from then on. I still have that image vividly in long term memory, it was the first step on the long road culminating in Meldrewism. ;=)
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OP: often this sort of problem is caused by the signal to the TV being too low to activate the set's own interference suppression system. Maybe a better (higher gain) aerial or a new downlead would help, or try buying a piece of ferrite rod for a few pence from an electronics diy shop and twisting the aerial lead round it a few times near where it plugs into the TV. Just trying to be practical...
I still feel guilty about doing a regular bike swap with my mate when I was 16. He liked riding my quiet Honda while I used to blast around with his Cotton Continental, that had a Villiers 2T two-stroke twin on pipes with no baffles. I have to remember this when I'm in any French town and some kid crawls past at 20mph on an automatic scooter with an exhaust that screams like a banshee.
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the old victor meldrew thread yet again.....i dont believe it
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"the old victor meldrew thread yet again....I don't believe it"
LOL! You have to feel for Richard Wilson, though. I bet he can't set foot outside without people quoting the phrase back to him, in the mistaken belief that it was funny. I'm sure I would find it hard to resist.
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"Maybe a better (higher gain) aerial or a new downlead"
Good advice. A lot of aerial installations 'soldier on' with very basic components that attenuate the signal, but you only notice when unsuppressed scooters go by. We have a 52-element Triax aerial that plucks digital signals out of the ether, although officially we can't receive them at all!
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i used to dx the london independant radio station (capitol fm) back in the 70"s on my pioneer tuner and a 6 dipole fm antiferance aerial mounted on the chimley plus proper coax cable non of that rubbish modern stuff
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Quite so. In the 1970s I used to use a J-Beam multibeam 46 for TV and an FM8 with a rotator for stereo from BBC Oxford down in Somerset. Had a solicitors' letter from my neighbours (all on a useless piped system with nothing on the roof) once though...
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Re-siting the aerial at the back of the house, or which ever way is further from the road, and so that the structure of the house screen the aerial from the road can be worthwhile too, if a continuous coax run doesn't help.
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