In article ,
Mortimer wrote:
What was amazing was how amateurish many of the programmes were, both
with the wooden presenters and the poor technical standards with
horrendous bright yellow blown highlights on most of the studio shots.

Not surprising. A local station couldn't afford professionals. They'd be
dependant on everyone giving their services for free. So unless this
included some retired pros, that's the result.

--
*The modem is the message *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Monday, February 6th, 2012, at 11:50:27h -0500, Arny Krueger wrote:

Maybe you might want check out the meaning of the word consortium.

Yeah I was just plain wrong to say it was not a consortium --
I should have checked the "finer" details first.

In the case of PBS (television):

1) it is collectively owned by the affiliate stations

2) it produces no programs of its own, but these are supplied by
major stations (eg WETA, WGBH, WNET, KQED) for network viewing by
affliates who have paid the appropriate fee for the program

In the case of NPR (radio):

1) it is a corporation in its own right but stations pay to join as
affiliates,
and each member station receives one vote at the annual NPR board
meetings

2) NPR produces network programming to which individual stations
can subscribe

Agreement is a beautiful thing!

"Ian Jackson"

On 405-lines, we could certainly get the French positive mod 819-line,
14MHz wide signals - but these were displayed as two stretched, tall
images, side-by-side. And, of course, there was no sound, as the sound
(AM) was 11.15MHz HF or LF (depending on the channel number). Under
conditions of strong sporadic-E propagation, Band 1 French signals were
receivable in the UK at considerable distances and, in fringe areas, could
totally swamp the wanted signal.

I have an ancient copy of "Practical Television" that includes an article
"Receiving French TV". This was an account of an installation created for
someone (not himself a DX TV enthusiast) who actually wanted to watch French
TV. Even though the customer lived on the south coast this was real
fringe-area stuff. The installation included a modified French 819-line TV
(modified to increase gain, reduce bandwidth and improve synchronisation)
and two specially made high-gain aerials, one for vision, one for sound.

On 625-line PAL, UK-standard sets can't really make anything at all of the
French positive mod, AM sound 625-line signals (SECAM if colour).

Anyone who actually *wanted* to receive French TV wouldn't use a UK-standard
receiver to do it!

David.

Ian Jackson wrote:

Assuming it survives long enough, a 120V kettle run on 240V will boil in
less than a quarter of the time. [Note 'quarter', not 'half', as twice
the voltage will provide four times the power.]

Surely the manufacturers of kettles will use an element that has an
appropriate wattage, irrespective of the supply voltage it's designed for.

I used to have a 12V DC kettle and it managed to boil two cups of water
quite quickly. It pulled about 30A!

Bill

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Geoffrey S.
Mendelson writes

Nothing beats the taste of tea made from water boiled over an old fashioned
wood fire.

Like the way food always seem to taste better if it's cooked outside :-)

The smell of bacon cooked on anything that burns paraffin does it for
me. The best cooking method, of course, being the first amongst equals...

Come on Mr Miller, don't disappoint me!

Bill

Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:48:28 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:

I don't think anybody ever passed a law that said interference could
only make the signal go upwards. In both video polarities there are
black and white fishes. The white ones dominate visually.

d
So why were we told that one of the great advantages of 625 was that the
interference would be black?

Possibly it was an early manifestation of the BBC's attempts to convince
that black equals white.

Bill

On Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, at 00:36:30h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

The smell of bacon cooked on anything that burns paraffin does it for
me.

It should be peameal bacon though for the best tasting bacon (cured but not smoked)!

http://republicofbacon.COM/2010/11/19/canadian-bacon-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/

Watch how to cook at

http://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=x7lRqfeXYJI

On Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, at 00:38:26h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

Possibly it was an early manifestation of the BBC's attempts to convince
that black equals white.

http://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=3zj6o_DZfSw

In message , David Looser
writes
Just on the offchance that you meant this seriously I'd ask just how many
people in the UK would actually want to watch French TV?
UHF only TV's could not receive it.
Many TVs sold in the UK had multiband tuners, and frequency converters were
easily obtainable. So of all the many factors that stopped the British
watching French TV that one was by far and away the easiest and cheapest to
solve.
Don't forget that French SECAM had positive going Video and (I think) AM
sound.
--
Clive

In message , David Looser
writes
Are you telling me that anyone would have missed Channel 5 had we not had
it?
Here in West Cumbria we never did. We only got more than the standard
four channels when the transmitter was switched from analogue to
digital.
--
Clive