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<blockquote data-quote="deeptho" data-source="post: 1149701" data-attributes="member: 215446"><p>Thirty to fourty years ago I receeived stations in band 1 from Greece (ERT), Macedonia (Skopje), Spain, Italy, Sweden and'</p><p>some eastern European stuff. On FM, I received radio Tunis. All of this from Belgium and between 2000 and 3000km </p><p>away. Daytime reception was usually better and spring and summer were the best times of year.</p><p></p><p>TV reception was fun as Band I only has 3 channels, and all of them had local stations (2 from Belgium and one from</p><p>the Netherlands). So what you received varied and usually there was lots of interference.</p><p></p><p>Reception antenna for band 1 was a (large) dipole in the attic made from some wire and roughly oriented to produce</p><p>a weak signal for local channels. FM reception was just using a portable transistor radio. No antennas needed, although a directional antenna was sometimes useful to tune out "local interference" (=official broadcasts). Also, most signals came in below 100Mhz.</p><p></p><p>Local TV was really boring at the time, with the best programs actually on air during strikes (about the only time ever that movies</p><p>were shown on TV). Radio was better, as the FM pirate stations had just become active.</p><p></p><p>And at the time it was always possible to listen to analogue car phones, the police, fire services and ship to shore traffic (all unencrypted).</p><p></p><p>But hey: now I can receive thousands of satellite channels. Not bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deeptho, post: 1149701, member: 215446"] Thirty to fourty years ago I receeived stations in band 1 from Greece (ERT), Macedonia (Skopje), Spain, Italy, Sweden and' some eastern European stuff. On FM, I received radio Tunis. All of this from Belgium and between 2000 and 3000km away. Daytime reception was usually better and spring and summer were the best times of year. TV reception was fun as Band I only has 3 channels, and all of them had local stations (2 from Belgium and one from the Netherlands). So what you received varied and usually there was lots of interference. Reception antenna for band 1 was a (large) dipole in the attic made from some wire and roughly oriented to produce a weak signal for local channels. FM reception was just using a portable transistor radio. No antennas needed, although a directional antenna was sometimes useful to tune out "local interference" (=official broadcasts). Also, most signals came in below 100Mhz. Local TV was really boring at the time, with the best programs actually on air during strikes (about the only time ever that movies were shown on TV). Radio was better, as the FM pirate stations had just become active. And at the time it was always possible to listen to analogue car phones, the police, fire services and ship to shore traffic (all unencrypted). But hey: now I can receive thousands of satellite channels. Not bad. [/QUOTE]
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