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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: What happened to channel 1?
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 18:48:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 18:48:25 1986
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I think it's now the amateur radio 6 meter band.  It was a little too low
in frequency to be useful.  There were problems both with skip, which
sometimes plagues channel 2 today, and with the wide bandwidth with respect
to center frequency, making a low IF a necessity.  I imagine that there
were political reasons for getting rid of it, too.  It was a little before
my time.

By the way, I can sometimes pick up cordless telephone conversations by
setting my TV on channel one and playing with the fine tuning.