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From: bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: VCR comercial eliminator
Summary: High Frequency sound on ABC
Message-ID: <769@rush.cts.com>
Date: 7 Sep 88 06:45:21 GMT
References: <257@ivucsb.UUCP> <16314@apple.Apple.COM> <17659@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <3309@homxc.UUCP>
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In article <3309@homxc.UUCP>, mrb1@homxc.UUCP (M.BAKER) writes:
> 
> I ran into a couple of years ago (circa 84 or 85, maybe) while chief
> engineer at an ABC station.  If I recall correctly, there was a
> code of some sort which network included in the vertical interval
> of shows coming down the line (it really was a "line" then :-) )

Until around 1984, I would always hear a high frequency sound whenever
our local station (KGTV-10, San Diego) switched to ABC.  I'm more
sensitive to high frequency sounds than most people, but this high
sound was really noticeable and was irritating.  I wonder if I could
hear this "code".

Bob Ames     
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