sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty Sasaki) (03/26/86)
What happened to channel 1? Someone posted a message a while ago about collecting televisions with channel 1 on the dial, so obviously there used to be a channel 1? -- ---------------- Marty Sasaki uucp: harvard!sasaki Harvard University Science Center arpa: sasaki@harvard.harvard.edu One Oxford Street phone: 617-495-1270 Cambridge, MA 02138
twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) (03/28/86)
> What happened to channel 1? Someone posted a message a while ago about > collecting televisions with channel 1 on the dial, so obviously there > used to be a channel 1? My TV also has channel 0 so obviously there used to be a channel 0 :-)
rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (03/29/86)
I think it's now the amateur radio 6 meter band. It was a little too low in frequency to be useful. There were problems both with skip, which sometimes plagues channel 2 today, and with the wide bandwidth with respect to center frequency, making a low IF a necessity. I imagine that there were political reasons for getting rid of it, too. It was a little before my time. By the way, I can sometimes pick up cordless telephone conversations by setting my TV on channel one and playing with the fine tuning.
smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) (03/31/86)
> > What happened to channel 1? Someone posted a message a while ago about > > collecting televisions with channel 1 on the dial, so obviously there > > used to be a channel 1? > My TV also has channel U so obviously there used to be a channel U :-)