On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Alan <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
| In article <EMWdnViWgIdN0rXVnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Mr Ed"
<ecamin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
|>Channel 1 is the Radio Amateur 6 Meter band and the current CB
allocation.
|>After the second World War Hams petitioned the FCC for more freq.
|>allocation. They gave them 50 to 54 mHz, the upper 2/3rds of channel 1.
48
|>to 50mHz became commercial and later some was given to CB use. I suspect
|>that when you scanned for stations that a local strong Ham was on the
air
|>and your scan grabbed that channel.
|
| Channel 1 never went below 54 MHz, and CB is in the 27 MHz vicinity.
There
| is no overlap between CB and television channels, present or historical.
At one time channel 1 was 44-50 MHz and channel 2 was 50-56 MHz.
| The set would not lock on amateur activity, since the amateur signal
would
| not have been an 8VSB signal, and would not have had a PSIP data stream
identifying
| it as channel 1.
It's more a matter of there being ANY signal on any scanned frequency that
was identifying as virtual channel 1.
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