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|    Tony Langdon to Holger Granholm    |
|    Re: Thats Odd    |
|    05 Mar 18 19:06:00    |
      -=> Holger Granholm wrote to Tony Langdon <=-               HG> We had a similar problem. The TV-sets manufactured in the 1950-1960's        HG> had an IF-frequency of 21 MHz. Obviously we had to avoid working on the        HG> 15m, and to some extent 40m bands, since 7 MHz * 3 = 21 MHz.              That would be a problem. Also some 2 way radios have an IF of 21.4 MHz. Fun       if there's some 15m activity nearby!               HG> Luckily, in those early TV days, they were not transmitting programs        HG> 24h/day, so we could operate ham radio outside TV-hours.              Here, that was after midnight. :)                     ... It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.       === MultiMail/Win32 v0.49       --- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)    |
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