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From: mjg@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: TV detective/contraband typewriters/UNIX 2meter net?
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Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 09:49:57 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 15 09:49:57 1984
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I can tell one place where TV detectives come to your door and threaten
prsecution - thats England!. Over there you have to pay a licence fee per
household to operate at TV - thats what finances the BBC and makes it
independant of Government handouts and commercials - say 10 million
housholds paying around $75 per year brings in enough to run 2 TV channels
4 national radio channels and many local stations. Of course there are lots
of people who would like to get away without paying so the Post Office, whose
job it is to collect and administer the licence scheme has for years had
detector vans of increasing sophistication to detect unlicensed users. They
have it to a fine art where they can tell what channel you are watching and
what corner of the room the TV is in!. 1984 came a long time ago in Britain
as far as TV is concerned!.

- Mike Gingell, Raleigh, NC (ex UK!)    ...mcnc!ecsvax!mjg