13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
4:08 a.m.
Hi,
Roy J. Tellason said:
On Saturday 12 August 2006 07:49 pm, Don wrote:
The detector vans looked for the local oscillator radiation from the tuner,
uhf for the past 20 years or so, using a pair of rotateable horn antennas
to get a precise fix on the set. I don't think they use them any more,
I've not seen one for years.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
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.