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Could Phantom FM be planning a pirate TV channel?

  • 29-10-2006 10:16pm
    #1
    superdudeman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭


    Ok, I know it's kinda unlikely that Phantom would be opening a TV channel but I was just tuning in my TV with a rabbit ears in Greystones and got the sound from Phantom ("this is phantom 105.2fm on a test transmission" etc) about 2/3 of the way through "VL" band. :confused:


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    More likely something to do with your TV , or faulty PhantomFM TX. They are launching on 31st as a Radio station


  • #3
    superdudeman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭superdudeman007


    I know that I was wondering hoe I was getting Phantom on my TV without getting anything else...


  • #4
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,258 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    I used to find when using those arials on an old portable TV that I could pick up the likes of FM104 every so often when scanning through the stations. It's just some kind of weird frequency bounceback.


  • #5
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Your Low-VHF "VL" band on that TV is tuning through the FM radio band (a lot of TVs do as some cable systems in other countries have, at least in the past, put TV channels in the FM radio band!!!)

    If there are two FM stations 6MHz apart (6MHz is TV System-I Vision carrier- FM Sound separation) your TV will clearly resolve the sound of an FM station if the audio on your TV doesn’t mute in the absence of a valid TV signal...
    however modern TVs usually mute the sound in the absence of vision synch pulses (and the auto tuning wouldn’t have stopped there on a auto scan either) so you don't hear static if there is no signal present, the above wouldn't happen on these TVs.


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