JOE NICHOLSON TYPED IN A MESSAGE TO BILL RISTER
 
I'm sure you were listening on an image frequency, much as I did at the 
beginning of my life-long interest in radio.
 
MIKE SPRAGUE SAYS:
 
I can detect that you have been listening to radio of all kinds for a while 
back.  But let me suggest that Bil  was probably not listening to an image or 
a hetrodyne.  I listed to police calls well into the 1960s in the Los Angeles 
area on a Philco tabletop radio that had a second band which covered 1.6 to 
2.0 MHz.  The markings on the dial indicated that part of this range was 
intended for "POLICE" and another part for "TELEVISION".  A paper label on 
the back cover indicated that this radio was equipped for reception of 
television sound.  I was curious about this for a long time and eventually 
came across the information that Philco competed with other manufacturers to 
establish a broadcast standard for TV during the 1930s.  RCA eventually won.  
Philco promoted the idea that TV picture ought to be broadcast at frequencies 
above 44 MHz and sound simultaneously broadcast on frequencies between 1.6 
and 2.0 MHz.
 
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