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Originally Posted by Robert Grant
Another question relates to the UK system of a 6 MHz audio offset. 5.5 would have been System B/G, and compatible with much of NATO Europe (the whole reason for abandoning 405?), where as 6.5 MHz (as used by OIRT members) would have given the full resolution of the 8 MHz UHF channels. With 6.0, they got neither!
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From what I remember PAL was chosen rather late in the game in the UK. They already had the spec sheets all lined up for NTSC and had even gone so far as to distribute them to BBC engineers.
It could be their choices in audio offset reflected the fact that they originally weren't planning for PAL.
I wish I remember where I had read it, because I remember reading about one engineer having a cheat sheet of NTSC specs were he simply crossed off the NTSC stuff and substituted PAL numbers. Might have been here:
http://www.tech-ops.co.uk
David