Re: Illegal in Canada!

Terry · 2004-04-18T12:20:04+00:00

Interesting that there ever was a radio licence requirement in what was then'The Dominion of Canada'!Good question! Wonder if there is a cache (treasure trove!) of antiqueradios in some 'Canadian Crown Assets' warehouse somewhere that we could puta bid on?Personally I doubt it. The RCMP, generally, are pretty sensible andreasonable.Musta been back when a 'Wirelss/Radio Receieving Licence' which IIRC cost afew shillings in UK was required. Although I wasn't aware, Canada must havefollowed suit and also required such licences. Can you imagine every kidrunning around today with a portable walkman/radio having to buy a licence?Exactly!Today, in the UK a radio receieving licence is no longer required but a TVreceiving licence IS required, ostensibly the fee charged is to fund theBBC. There seems to be considerable opposition to that and some doubt thatit produces any more revenue than it costs to administer? In some circles isconsidered to be 'just another bit of bureaucracy to be tolerated'! Eventhe UK POSSESSION of a VCR connected to a monitor which is 'capable' ofreceiving TV signals is supposed to have a licence!Seems like in the 'Sceptered Isle' of today the law does not require 'Proofof having illegally received TV signals' only of possessing equipmentcapable of doing so?Come to think of it some laptops can receive TV it's just another form ofdata? Hmmm! Wonder if they can do that by wireless?No such requirement for receiving licences in Canada today where suchthings IMO would be unworkable.Just as well cos. between the cable service and our current experimentalviewing one of the Canadian cable satellites services we have severalhundred TV channels, which includes all the US and Canadian networks, acouple of BBC channels and many more speciality ones, some of which are 'Payper Vu'. Also included are some 30 music feeds. Am thinking of transmittingTV sound and/or any of those music feeds around the property as a low poweranalog signal to be received by our...

Apr 18, 2004 Last reply: 22 years ago 141 Replies

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Mary Fisher 22 years ago

Thank you!

And so do I - and I listen to it :-)

Mary

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RdM 22 years ago

Andy Hall argued:

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>> >> to zero in on any area of interest, or enter a city directly. : >> >>

: >> >Well, I got it this time and it seems that there's 24 hour coverage of : >all : >> >USA ... : >> >

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: >> Yes, but it's almost all on local FM radio stations and satellite : >> radio. : >

: >So what? : >

: >Mary : : : We were originally talking about short wave, that was all.....

That's right. It was mentioned that short wave was no longer beamed to the USA, possibly not Australaisa, and we have now determined that while that's true, the service is however available in the above ways instead. An aside.

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