Yo! Guy:
Thursday September 12 1996 20:28, Guy Houle wrote to Bill Cheek:
 GH>> .... my 2004 does not cover frequencies from 520 to 760 Mhz...
 BC>> And because most scannists are  like you,  that makes  the 520-760
 BC>> MHz spectrum just PRIME for bugs.  Less  chance of  accidental
 BC>> discoveries that way.
 GH>      That is a very good point indeed, but what if you have such a bug
 GH> near (or in!) your house and at the same time you tune across your  tv
 GH> dial (or remote control). You may have a small chance  to catch  them,
 GH> right?
Minuscule chance.  TV audio is relatively widebanded (WFM) whereas a bug is 
likely to be narrow banded.  Also, the bugger would set its frequency to be 
not on the audio slot....such that a TV tuner would not likely pick it up.  
It's hard enough to hit the cell sites with a TV tuner, even knowing for sure 
they're there.  I'd say that chances of a TV detecting a bug in the UHF TV 
band would be nill, even if the bug were inside the TV.
 GH> (if the bug fall in the  audio part  of the  tv channel  and this tv
 GH> channel is not in use, of course)
Big IF.  If I were the bugger, I'd try to place the bug freq in the sync area 
of a local TV signal.   :-)
 GH> I have a small tv (5 inches screen)  with a  varactor tuner that
 GH> sweep in UHF from around 438 to about 890 Mhz. Needless to say that
 GH> is an old TV and sometime i  like to  play around  just for listening
 GH> at many telephone comms at the same time....
Can it detect the cellular signals?
 GH>      By the way, i saw couple of weeks ago a message from  you (really
 GH> you?) announcing the CE-232 at 149.95$ ... is it right ?
I don't think it was on this forum you say it, but yeah...it's a permanent 
reduction.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
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