XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: Andy@nojunqmail.com   
      
   On 10/02/2016 19:52, Michael Black wrote:   
   > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, gareth wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed"    
   >> wrote   
   >> in message news:047d7bd769663e0786052b686ebe@google.com...   
   >>> The Den of Geeks report The CW Television Network plans to make a TV   
   >>> series  based on the amateur radio themed movie Frequency   
   >>   
   >> Television by CW ????? Must be even less usable than slowscan!!!  :-)   
   >>   
   > Well there used to be a scheme of transmitting data via a tv set, I   
   > forget the details.   
   >   
   > Slowscan was facsimile without the paper.   
      
   ISTR that you could stick an optical sensor on a rubber sucker on the TV   
   screen and connect it to your (BBC?) computer to download data.   
   Transfer rate was fairly slow with a frame rate of 50Hz. If you had 1   
   bit per frame so with error checks and other overhead it must have been   
   about 5 bytes per second.   
   Given the chance for error it must have been a frustrating business.   
      
   I had a speccy and acorn atom at the time and so I didn't get the chance   
   to join in.   
      
   Andy   
      
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