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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
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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 !  :-)


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