Frank Dresser wrote:


"Simon Mason" wrote in message
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I remember that story, - it was KLEE -TV see he

http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/hist..._of_texas.html



"It so happens that the January 1950 issue of Radio Electronics magazine
has a rundown on all the television stations operational in the USA and
conveniently, there on page 53, is a sharp photo of the KLEE station
ident caption."

I have the Feburary 1950 Radio Electronics, but not the January edition.
Just missed it! Anyway, TV dx was a regular feature of the electronics
magazines of the late 40s and early 50s. They printed pictures of the
test patterns in the stories. The webpage says American electronics
magazines were distributed in England and it would be easy to convert
the picture for use in a flying spot scanner.

Oh, well. The cosmic repeater theory is yet to be confirmed.

Frank Dresser



Yes, that's the webpage. It's *possible* that the signal was somehow
converted from 525 lines to 405 and rebroadcast by a UFO situated 1 1/2
light years from Earth, but I consider it unlikely. All the fictional
stories and urban legends about recieving 60 year old signals stems from
the KLEE event. It seems to be a veddy Brit sense of humor-about 15
years ago a guy patched into a repeater for BBC Southern Television and
announced himself as "Glon of the Asteron Galactic Command" and urged
Earthlings to "destroy all your weapons of war". Sure put a scare into
lots of people.