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30th Nov 2022, 9:18 pm | #1 |
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Stratovision!
Getting TV signal coverage into remote [and maybe hostile] places was a big issue in the last century.
Before satellite-broadcasting became a thing, there was Stratovision - TV broadcasts sent from high-altitude aircraft. Tests were done in the late-1950s/early-1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision https://www.earlytelevision.org/stratovision.html I find this deeply fascinating.
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30th Nov 2022, 10:51 pm | #2 |
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Re: Stratovision!
It became reality later e.g. TV Marti to Cuba used a blimp balloon and a C-130 aircraft;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_...B3n_Mart%C3%AD |
4th Dec 2022, 6:17 pm | #3 |
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Re: Stratovision!
There was a time when you could get overreach on the telly or on radio. Way back in the sixties in Blackburn you could on a good day watch German television (First watched Raumschiff Orion once) and again when moved to Germany I could on rare occasions watch British TV.
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Re: Stratovision!
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[Some of my friends based in Germany back then had rather better gear because they had to monitor East European TV on a continuous basis as part of their job.. I remember them watching the DDR "Polizeiruf 110" series.]
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4th Dec 2022, 7:51 pm | #5 |
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Re: Stratovision!
Maybe this is 'stratovision' the other way round, with the receiver in the aeroplane. What type of set is this?
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2016/7/...as-pretty-dull Steve
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5th Dec 2022, 9:44 pm | #6 |
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Re: Stratovision!
Apolgies for going slightly off topic but Bletchley Park computer museum had a high powered transmitter recovered from a Vulcan bomber. It looked like a large cylinder abut 1 x metre tall & it's function (I believe) was to jam enemy radar.
Urban legend has it, that during a training mission in the UK, it was either tested or accidentally switched on resulting blacked out TV reception for miles. Now that's what i call Strato RFI ! Rog Last edited by Roger Ramjet; 5th Dec 2022 at 9:45 pm. Reason: add para |
6th Dec 2022, 10:38 am | #7 | |
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