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Originally Posted by Penthode
You may recall 1948 was a crucial year for the television broadcast industry as set sales were booming. But 1948 also yielded the peak of the 11 year sunspot cycle. Sunspot activity in 1948 interfered greatly with VHF television propagation causing co channel interference from distant broadcast television stations. The result was that the FCC issued a halt on the construction of new stations for the next four years which resulted in the opening of the UHF band (470MHz to 890MHz) band for television.
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Wow. I never heard of this. How could they issue a 4 year halt to new station construction when TV was just getting off the ground?
03-07-2022, 03:18 PM
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