Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!ubc-vision!garfield!dalcs!iisat!kevin From: kevin@iisat.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: uunet access from Canada Message-ID: <270@iisat.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 21:51:24 EDT Article-I.D.: iisat.270 Posted: Wed Jul 22 21:51:24 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 17:54:57 EDT References: <954@van-bc.UUCP> <824@looking.UUCP> <1479@ncc.UUCP> <968@van-bc.UUCP> <227@Mannix.iros1.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: International Information Service, Dart., NS Lines: 37 Keywords: Canadian UUNET Summary: news TV short wave In article <227@Mannix.iros1.UUCP>, fortin@iros1.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes: > Yah! Actually, why don't we get the CBC to agree to let us use > "Hockey Night in Canada" as a carrier signal for the distribution > of news across the country? (You know, we could use the same > technique they use for the hearing impaired (closed captioning?) > as I am sure that they don't use that technique for hockey!) > > The only problem with this scheme is that it makes for slow news > retransmission in the summer. > > Denis, fortin@cae.UUCP No problem there ! Hockey by winter, and baseball by summer ! They are usually showing some kind of baseball game or something, and if there is a slack couple of weeks, they could always use CBC Sportsweekend... I don't think they close caption ANY sports (As long as it didn't bother broadcasts of Formula 1 racing from Europe ! :-) > PS. As for using the Stanley Cup as an antenna, I don't really > mind: it would probably end up in the Montreal area most of the > time anyway! In a way, you may be talking of something which is not all _that_ far fetched. I have a friend who's a ham radio operator (I listen to a lot of short wave stuff), and for a 100 watts or so, you can go quite far, especially if you take out the carrier signal (some of you out there may understand this), and is MUCH cheaper than Ma Bell... Would cost you for the initial equipment or so, and the electricity... What ? CRTC ? Security ? What more do you want for nothing ! :-) -- Kevin Davies International Information Service (IIS) UUCP: {seismo|utai|watmath|garfield} !dalcs!iisat!kevin ----------------------------------------