In article <g22go3$p3p$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Alan) writes:
>In article <bruce#fanboy.net-9DAC0F.08232113052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Bruce Tomlin <bruce#fanboy.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>In article <g0a53s$j8h$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Alan) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>That's what I thought too, but then I remembered that the cheap toy
>>walkie-talkies (and I think the cheap R/C toys too) moved to 49MHz.
> Except the cheap 49 MHz radios were *not* CB. Part 15, not part 95.
> They also moved there in the 70's as I recall, 20+ years after TV
channel
> 1.
TV Channel 1 was originally 44~50 Mhz.
50~54 Mhz is the Ham Radio (not CB) 6-meter band.
Everything 30~50 Mhz -today- is commercial 2-way, aka the old "low-band"
stuff.
Below that, 28~30 is the Ham Radio 10-meter band along with several
thousand scofflaw CB'ers bootlegging on frequencies not assigned to them.
Not much new there, they've been wandering outside their legal boundaries
for more than 30 years and the FCC has pretty much thrown up their hands,
determining it as "un-policeable", even though the scofflaws are also
operating in violation of international treaties. Still pretty much a
victim-less crime though and with no teeth in the laws (minimal penalties)
and the cost involved in investigation & prosecution, the feds, dealing
with their own budget cuts, inarguably have lots bigger fish to fry. Alas
once again, I digress.
TV Channel 1 officially disappeared on June 14, 1948. The reasons, in
detail, can be found here:
<http://www.tech-notes.tv/History&Trivia/Channel%20One/Channel_1.htm>
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