Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: hplabs!woolsey@nsc.NSC.COM (Jeff Woolsey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Setup Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 89 21:59:23 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 41, message 5 In article ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >You don't even need a scanner, just tune an old UHF TV set up to >Channel 81-83. >[Moderator's Note: An old UHF TV with those channels won't work as >well as one of the radios which play television audio only. In this >country you can buy them for the VHF channels, but I believe they are >illegal per FCC rules where UHF is concerned. A company in Toronto >makes the kind which cover the UHF band, and specifically covering >channels 80-83 or thereabouts. I have an old Pioneer TVX-9500 TV Sound Tuner that gets those channels. At first I didn't know what I was listening to up there, but it was interesting. This same tuner also gets NOAA weather stations when channels 7, 8, 9, and 10 are all selected at the same time. -- -- When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest. -- Bullwinkle J. Moose Jeff Woolsey woolsey@nsc.NSC.COM -or- woolsey@umn-cs.cs.umn.EDU