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Article #503Re: That digital stuff
From: Ian S. Salisbury
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:05
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:05
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Bruce Esquibel wrote: > Ian S. Salisbury <isalisb@nospam.gmail.com> wrote: > >> And my question from guess #2, is really; could you actually broadcast >> an analog TV signal from NY to LA with enough juice? We know that audio >> can in the AM band, but what about Video in the UHF? > > > If the earth was flat, no problem. > > Being it's not, the only way to get from NY to LA would be if the > atmospheric conditions were right and it bounced up and down to get there. > > There are actually a few "world records" for long distance tv veiwing, I'm > probably mistaken but top honors I beleive was some guy in New Zealand > picked up some kind of watchable signal from Michigan. Or maybe it was > Michigan from Chile. I don't run across those much anymore, probably due to > cable and people not "spinning the dial" anymore. > > But the point is, that was all due to weather conditions. > > If the curvature of the earth wasn't involved, enough power could get a > signal from anywhere to anywhere. > Cool.
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