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eppur_se_muova

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9. Interesting! I thought I read years ago that one of the most intense ...

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Mar 13, 2021, 09:32 AM

Mar 2021

... astronomical radio sources could actually be picked up by old analog TVs tuned between stations, though I don't remember whether it was UHF or VHF, or what the source was.

Quite a lot of the radio spectrum has been set aside for radio astronomy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_astronomy#Frequency_allocation

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Why Channel 37 Doesn't Exist (And What It Has to Do With Aliens) [View all] Celerity Mar 2021 OP

Thank You for posting. Dawson Leery Mar 2021 #1

The reason your TV starts out at Channel 2 jmowreader Mar 2021 #2

The police is also why the UK FM band used to stop at 97 MHz. mwooldri Mar 2021 #10

Reading this suddenly reminded me of our TV when I was growing up. Dagstead Bumwood Mar 2021 #3

We had one of those. BigmanPigman Mar 2021 #7

I like the Zappa song. Bird Lady Mar 2021 #16

my grandma had one of those channel master antennas and i loved rotating the dial and seeing the AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #14

Before Satellite and Internet Radio modrepub Mar 2021 #4

The road is better now. twodogsbarking Mar 2021 #5

In the 1950s one of our great past times was tuning in the 50,000 watt AM stations after dark in the rurallib Mar 2021 #6

+1. Thanks for sharing. n/t John1956PA Mar 2021 #8

The "Clear Channel" stations (Class A, 50kW) are still there. mwooldri Mar 2021 #11

Ducting is a lot of fun jmowreader Mar 2021 #12

Interesting! I thought I read years ago that one of the most intense ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 #9

Channels 6 & 7 of the old VHF system were on the low end of the FM dial rurallib Mar 2021 #13

interesting . we had rabbit ears where we lived . AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #15

To my provider, 37 is a sports channel Wolf Frankula Mar 2021 #17