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There certainly used to be "TV Detector Vans" in the UK.
These would allegedly detect the local oscillator from a TV set's
tuner to show that the TV was in use.the "blip" on the spectrum
analyser was used as evidence in court.There was a large antenna
on the top of the van,think this has now been abandoned.
Here in Portugal there used to be a TV licence,very few people paid it
and it was abandoned in the early 1990's.
If one has a satellite dish all the UK terrestrial TV channels can be
viewed in parts of Western Europe for free!!
There was mention on BBC Radio 4 recently of a guy having a lot of
"aggravation" from the agency that now enforces the collection.
Till 1971 you needed a radio licence as well but they gave this up
Hugh
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