Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!hrc!chanel!ngc From: ngc@chanel.UUCP (Chris Ng) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Television detection. Message-ID: <48591bd2.1fbc0@chanel.UUCP> Date: 30 Jan 90 18:11:30 GMT References: <2981@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <428@ssc.UUCP> Organization: gte Lines: 35 In article <428@ssc.UUCP>, markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier) writes: > In article <2981@servax0.essex.ac.uk>, zotog@sersun0.essex.ac.uk (Zotos G) writes: > > In UK they use a system (detector, presumably a sort of receiver) to detect > > a non-licence TV household. > > > > Does any out there has any idea of how this is done? > > What exactly they detect ? > > An article (lost in the mists of time ) make me think they use leakage out > of the IF, since they were listening for the sound. > > Another system picks up the horizontal sweep, and compares the phase to > determine which station is being received. > > markz@ssc.uucp How do they know the TV household is a non-licenced one? -- Chris Ng UUCP: {asuvax | hrc}!gtephx!ngc