In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
John Rumm wrote:
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Richard Russell
saying something like:

I suspect that all you've been spouting about the TV detector
vans is utter bull****.
If you believe that, you're a poor judge of character.

You've already admitted you have a vested interest and so far I've seen
nothing to support your assertions about these wondrous vehicles.
I have no problem believing that TV detection equipment exists. I do
have difficulty believing it takes a van load of gear to do it though!
Hand held apparatus perhaps.

oh, with current technology, its very tricky to pick it up.

You are HOPING that there will be some leakage of some signal out of
what is today a very low powered set.

Its probaly easier for the beeb to try and tie IP addresses that access
its online content to households..

But, as pointed out elsewhere, licence collection has been farmed out
to an external agency, what are they doing getting involved in something
which is no longer within their remit ?

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geoff