13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
2:57 p.m.
On Saturday 12 August 2006 07:49 pm, Don wrote:
Nott quite. Since a TV license covers you for as many sets as you want
(you don't need a license per set), all they are looking for is the fact
that there is at least one TV receiving broadcast signals in that house.
Last time I heard about how it was done, they looked for the local
oscillator radiation. Therefore computer monitors wouldn't affect it,
now, in theory, would a TV set tuned to channel 36 (the conventional
output of UHF modulators over here at that time).
-tony
IIRC, in the UK they have mobile units that
wander around trying
to see how many televisions each home has (?)
I remember reading about that some time ago (decades?), and wondering since
then how much that whole thing had gotten messed up since computer monitors
had come into the picture.