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Re: Television Detection

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From: Chuck Hanavin
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1990 21:43
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In article <3027@servax0.essex.ac.uk> zotog@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (Zotos G) writes:
>Well, it is true that in England they detect non licence households with two ways.
>One is with a van with lots of antennas at the top and the other with some sort of portable detector which is used to places where the van can't go.
>
>Is  any one out there,who knows how it is done?
>
>Thenks.

Although not a two-way scheme, They could sit out in front of
your house with highly directional loop antenna and a reciever
tuned to the tv's mixer oscilator frequency. If they pick up a signal,
most likely you have a TV.

Chuck(WB3FJJ)
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