20 Feb
2000
20 Feb
'00
12:45 p.m.
Upon the date 01:56 AM 2/21/00 +0000, Tony Duell said something like:
You _still_ need a license to own a radio or TV in the UK Tony? I knew that
to be the case from the earliest days of radio before WWII but I hadn't
heard of that being done in recent times. BTW, I've got a 1930-vintage
license which came with my 1926-vintage RCA Radiola 20 which once was owned
by a fellow up in Nova Scotia province.
As long as
we're on this subject - are B&W TV's with screens larger than
5 inches or so still common in the UK, Europe, Russia, anywhere?
I've no idea if they're still being made (I've long since given up buying
_new_ consumer electronics [1]), but certainly 12" B&W portable TVs were
sold in the UK very recently. There's a cheaper TV license if you only
have B&W TVs, you see.
[1] In my experience it's better to rebuild a 10-year-old TV or VCR and
have a machine that will last a good few years than buy a new one which
will fail in a year's time.
Sure _is_ junk sold nowadays! Ugh!
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/