Re: Where did Channel 1 go?

From: Rich Grise (rich_at_example.net)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:51:24 GMT

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:48:56 -0400, Tam/WB2TT wrote:

>
> "Rich Grise" <rich@example.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.10.22.17.37.10.548678@example.net...
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:05:13 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Andrea <andrea8090@gmail.com> says...
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know why there isn't a channel 1 on American TV dials?
>>>>I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
>>>
>>> Whenever you see different answers, goto the Straight Dope website.
>>> Cecil Adams is always right,
>>>
>>> Here is your answer: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372
>>
>> That's the same answer I had, so he must be right. ;-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Rich
>>
> I think the answer is mostly right. Notice they moved all the channels up,
> with ch2 now staring at 54 MHz I suspect what happened was that when the sun
> spots came around, they found that there was too much interference from
> stations 1000s of miles away. They gave 50 - 54 MHz to the hams. BTW, my
> best distance on 50 MHz is around 10,000 miles.

I guess the cutoff freq. for skip isn't as sharp as they imply. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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