Comment on Are you too young to remember these?

• Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about.

  Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal.

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  • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we’d hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Now that’s what I call a proper television

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