The FCC seemed extremely responsive and considerate back then. I wonder how long things would have taken now-a-days to get consensus and authorizations
Whatever happened to Channel 1?
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#12channel 1 in the United Kingdom
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#13Not all the channels were usable in one area. Tuners were not very good at rejecting harmonics back then. Today, we have phones with four or five radio receivers and three transmitters operating without interference. It's amazing that works. Receivers are far, far better than they were in the tube era.
Surprisingly, a lot of that improvement comes from miniaturization and from better capacitors. The tubes themselves weren't really bad but they were power hungry and physically large. The capacitors, however, in the 1960s were terrible.
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#14The FCC seemed extremely responsive and considerate back then. I wonder how long things would have taken now-a-days to get consensus and authorizations
WWII had a big influence on making the public a stomach more direct orders and not complain as much.
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#15channel 1 in the United Kingdom
a.k.a. BBC One (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone).
Re: Whatever happened to Channel 1?
#16Not all the channels were usable in one area. Tuners were not very good at rejecting harmonics back then. Today, we have phones with four or five radio receivers and three transmitters operating without interference. It's amazing that works. Receivers are far, far better than they were in the tube era.
Doesn't a more sensitive receiver make the harmonic issue worse? In one case it fades out into background in the other you precisely measure it!
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#17The FCC seemed extremely responsive and considerate back then. I wonder how long things would have taken now-a-days to get consensus and authorizations
Over 10 years to get their bands?
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#19tl;dr as more spectrum was used in the late 1940s a channel had to be freed up to deal with interference issues so they picked channel 1 and simply choose not to renumber. You'd think the article would explore why they didn't renumber, but nope. Legacy hardware and possible consumer confusion seem like the most likely speculation.
you tl;dr people are doing the lord's work. thank you
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