"WG" wrote in message
news:96%Fc.104250$E84.53040@edtnps89...
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:00:37 GMT

... It was the FCC in the US that put that law into effect and all
TV signals in the US will have to be digital by 2006. That means
that if you don't have a digital ready TV now you will have to have
a set top box. That is also why the TV manufactures are dumping the
analogue TVs with some giving them away to clear the stock. The
good point to this is that they can stack 4 or 5 channels on one
signal taking up less band width also less or no interference. Also
better clarity and sound that is not do-able with analogue.
Satellite TV is already digital with the set top box so they are
years ahead of many of the rest.

Well here are my thoughts on this. First, I don't believe that the FCC
has any power to regulate any laws. As they can only make
recommendations for the lawmakers to do so.

Second, High Definition TV was supposed to kick in a little while ago
(same thing as digital TV perhaps?). Well this was cancelled because
most consumers didn't even own one yet.

Third, you know companies are going to sell digital TV tuner boxes that
will work with analog TV sets anyway, if something like this gets past.
Plus they will still work with game machines, VCRs, and DVD players
anyway.


Cheers!


______________________________________________
Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD & Windows 2000)
-- written and edited within Word 2000

Well here are my thoughts on this. First, I don't believe that the FCC
has any power to regulate any laws

the original poster was either mistaken or misinformed. The FCC did not pass
that law. Congress did.

And Congress does have the power to pass that law.

Yep, Try scanning between 869 to around 880 mhz WFM

interesting because people told me that my scanner which does not cover the
cell phone band was picking up images of cell phone calls in the 990 mhz
aircraft band.

Yet the signals of these "images of cell phone calls" were in narrow FM mode
and also AM mode.

That is, some were NFM and some were AM.

None were in wide FM mode.

They did all frequency hop.

There were some (a couple) of cordless phones in wide fm in the 900 mhz ham
band (one of them our own cordless phone), but most of these were only in
narrow fm mode and did not frequency hop. none in AM mode as I recall. These
were on the correct frequency however, instead of images.

I wasn't listening to cordless phones. I was listening for ham radio operators.
I don't know why the government assigned phone calls that are illegal to listen
to to the legal to listen to ham bands where you can't but help hear them when
you're listening for hams.

It just doesn't make any sense at all to me.

and in the 990 mhz band, I was listening for airband signals, not cell phones.

phone calls are very boring, anyways.

Listening to local cordless phones, if that is your thing - would provide
better listening. At least you have a snow ball's chance in hell of knowing
who they are, and the things they speak of will be more localized. Hell, ya
might even hear them talk about YOU.

I'm not sure if this is funny or sad. I'm going to have to go for "sad".

Our neighbor was complaining to us becaue relatives of hers somehow found out
information that she didn't want them to know.

And she was telling us we better not talk to anyone else at all about her.
(this wasn't anything to do with cordless, cell, or scanner. She meant verbally
in person).

She thought we told them.

Well, what she doesn't know is that she herself is broadcasting the information
right in the 900 mhz ham radio band.

Ham radio operators could have heard her. And scaner listeners could also have
heard her.

I listen to the 900 mhz band for ham radio, not for phone calls.

Why bother? Does anyone use a analog cell phone anymore?
--

yes. I supposedly pick up plenty of 800 mhz band images of analog cell phone
calls in the 900 mhz aircraft band (around 990 mhz).

Yet these are not wide fm mode that I pick up there. Plenty are narrow fm and
some are AM. And they all frequency hop.

and I don't hear any tone on them like people say there are on cell phone calls
when they switch frequency.

so I'm kind of baffled.

It was the FCC in the US that put that law into effect and all TV signals in
the US will have to be digital by 2006.

correction. It was Congress that put that law into effect, not the FCC.

People assume it was the FCC since they know that the FCC reggulates radio and
TV.

But in this particular case, it was Congress that passed the law.