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Can Cable TV Descramblers really be detec from outside ???

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From: Douglas Baker
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:23
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In our local paper there has been talk of detecting Il-legal cable TV
descrablers from outside the home.  I can think of two possible ways
this can be done but there may be others.

        1) use a sensitive spectrum analyzer to find out which channel
is being watched by looking at the local oscillator freq.

        2) modulate a signal into the channels which aren't part of
basic and when these pay channels are watched the signal would be
radiated out the picture tube and detected.

        If anyone knows if any of the above methods are used or how
this is done could you reply to the net ?  I'm sure many others out
there will be interested.
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