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to: Mike Ross
from: Tom Walker
date: 2003-07-21 08:52:54
subject: ANTENNAS

-> You miss the point TV is VHF, far shorted wavelength than the AM radio
-> band. I think there may be something about it historically however in
-> that the first experimental TV pictures were transmitted over a regular
-> AM radio using a synchronized rotating disk with an aperture. I've never
-> actualy seen one of those babies except in old radio books. IIRC they
-> even brought back the rotating disk idea when the first colour image
-> experiments were first tried. Reminded me of those crazy Christmas light
-> things with a three colour film rotating disk in front of a flood lamp.

 Many years ago they had one of those Operating in the Chicago Museum of
Science and Industry.
Actualy the Color wheen in fornyt of a Monochrone CRT was the CBS
system. FAR superior to the RCA NTSC system in Color Rendition but like
the Superior Beta Video Tape system lost out in the Race to be the
"Standard".
Ironicly a system using Pure Photographic Filters is making the Come
back in the form of the Texas Instrument DLP technology for Digital
Projectors


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