NO more free TV licence from today

indeed

they just picked up the time base every 17 Kc/s .....

you tell them spike....

Who got them to offer the free licence in the first place OOI?

Or should they pay the FIT payments etc?

Cheers, T i m

(17 probably comes from GPO ringing tone, but that was Hz)

Older sets use to radiate LO quite seriously

nah I had forgotten having not hearing it on 80m for a while.....15.625 Kc/s ...shirley

Yes, but what I meant was that anyone who became 60 in (say) 2009, and qualified for PC, would still continue to get it after the rules changed.

That would be just the video frequency, and wouldn't tell you if you were watching broadcast TV or not - nor would the signals have sufficient energy to be picked up any distance away. Same with the line frequency at 15.635 kHz. The TV could be being used as a monitor, or similar, and those signals would still be present.

Some of this stuff is now a distant memory for me, but I was in the television industry for many years.

not heard 15 Kc/s for years .......

I retired in 2010 at 57 and got the lower pension is that correct or was I diddled ? .....

I couldn't hear it as a young man working in TV servicing - a great disadvantage! BTW, I meant 15.625kHz - 625 lines x 25.

Not sure what you mean, but you wouldn't have been entitled to pension Credit aged 57 at any time.

right...I mean on my 80m ham radio receiver .......buzz every 15 Kc/s....I refuse to use hertz...it means nothing

It's a painful term - as I remember some wag saying at college many years ago!

You really are a dick aren't you Crazy Jim?

'You refuse to' ... like you are some sort of vigilante or rebel?

The *reason* we all try to use the same terms and standards is so that we can better / more efficiently / accurately communicate with each other.

Is your old Yank Tank RHD as if it is I'm surprised you don't 'refuse' to drive on the left (in the UK)?

Cheers, T i m

Didn't think you could take the state pension early either, defer it yes.

So one must assume this pension is a private or works one which will have it's own set of rules regarding early payment. I could have taken my works pension at 55 with a 25% reduction tapering to 0% at

bullshit Timmy c/s cycles per seconds describes what is going on and hertz is some German bloke......c/s thus we can better / more efficiently / accurately communicate with each other........

sorry I was thinking about my company pension I meant my state pension at 65 seemed to just miss getting the old higher amount

Only to crazy's like you it seems.

So what is a volt, amp, degree, foot, kilo describing?

And?

Nope. You might be able to talk to yourself better. Do you actually have any friends? Doesn't look like you spend any time talking to them on AR, judging by the amount of time you spend here on a DIY group.

Cheers, T i m