12-11-2018, 03:24 PM
I read that back in the analog days, when the conditions were right, they could get VHF TV from Hawaii in California and visa versa.
Or the wrong conditions. TV signals generally transmit about 90 miles over level ground. Back in the ‘80’s, when Chernobyl was melting down, I lived in the upper Midwest. One afternoon I picked up a station with unusual Spanish business names during the commercial breaks. When the station ID’ed on the half hour, it was from Albuquerque, about 1500 miles away. The signal lasted about an hour, long enough to watch a rerun of Kung Fu. I always wondered if the radiation in the atmosphere curved the signal, or if it was some other anomaly.
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Or the wrong conditions. TV signals generally transmit about 90 miles over level ground. Back in the ‘80’s, when Chernobyl was melting down, I lived in the upper Midwest. One afternoon I picked up a station with unusual Spanish business names during the commercial breaks. When the station ID’ed on the half hour, it was from Albuquerque, about 1500 miles away. The signal lasted about an hour, long enough to watch a rerun of Kung Fu. I always wondered if the radiation in the atmosphere curved the signal, or if it was some other anomaly.
Go to Google. Search for "idiot." Click images.
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