Reminds me of England not so many years ago when folks had to pay an annual
license fee/tax for each TV in a home, even though the signals they
received were coming through the ether. The government had trucks which
cruised around neighborhoods sniffing for the IF frequencies leaking out
of TV sets and whacked you if you had an unregistered set.

I dunno much more about that, but I'm guessing the tax supported the BBC or
something like that. Maybe that's still a common practice is some parts of
the world?

Jeff

Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone to
blame it on."


Sasal Suzi wrote:



Just don't put the amp where there is little or no
signal or you

Speaking of amps .....
A couple of years ago we had 5 TV's and an amp, gemini I think.
We were eating dinner when we heard a loud beep, beep, beep
coming from outside. There was a Comcast cable truck outside.
The worker rang our bell. He said he detected an illegal condition
that needed to be resolved. If we refused, service would be stopped.
We let him in. He said that our amp was in violation and had to be
removed. We complied and he went away. The reason he gave was
that it interfered with aircraft, believe it or not. We never hooked it
back up. It was very scary to have somebody pull up outside and
"scan" our premisis. Makes you wonder what else they have.