Re: How good were 1950's/1960's Band 1 TV receivers?

On Jul 31, 3:35 pm, Ian Edwards <red--NOSPAM-squir...@ntl-INVALID--
world.com> wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
Take into account as well the advent of UHF where impulse ignition
interference wasn't so much of a problem and over time the suppression
levels on cars improved...

. . . and this brings us neatly back full circle.

When the local pizza delivery bod roars past my house at 25mph on his
chavved up moped - that's the one who he thinks he's improved the
engine's performance by replacing the resistive ignition lead with a
solid copper one - analogue TV doesn't blink but digital Freeview (same
aerial) spits, coughs, freezes then drops out until he's passed. It's
so annoying that I want to shoot him! ;-)

But your DTT signal could be as much as 20 dB down on analogue levels,
64 QAM as used on Muxes 2 and A compound the situation further. Out
of interest which part of the UHF band are your analogue and DTT
signals situated ?

I remember in the late 1960s when we had to make do with a very poor
signal for BBC 2 from a distant Crystal Palace (Ch 33), no end of
break up from passing cars etc.

.

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