TV Licenses was Re: Message formats

-----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Friday, 8 January 1999 8:43 Subject: Re: Message formats Can't help with the other examples, but IIRC, in days of old, when we had such things as TV licenses, it was still legal for an amateur (or non-amateur) to use amateur tv without a broadcast listeners license. The test was whether the tv transmission was on a normal broadcast channel and could be received on an unmodified tv. If it needed a separate rx then you didn't need a license. The PMG had just about lost interest in the whole concept of receiver licensing by this stage anyway, though they made a last attempt to get people to comply with a massive (for those times) tv and radio adverstising campaign which didn't really net too many more licenses. Shortly thereafter, they dropped the whole system. The only receivers that require a license these days are certain satellite systems (under some special circumstances). Otherwise you are free to look/listen to anything you like. (Except mobile phones - in theory) Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Room Internet Cafe Port Pirie South Australia. netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au