In article <g0a9354t0c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>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.
oops. I looked up the numbers, saw 44, and typed 54. Fortunately for
my
claim, 27 is still way below either.
>| 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.
Exactly, but that was not what Mr Ed claimed.
Alan
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