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Andrea
- Jan 1, 1970
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Does anyone know why there isn't a channel 1 on American TV dials?
I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
Does anyone know why there isn't a channel 1 on American TV dials?
I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
Andrea said:Does anyone know why there isn't a channel 1 on American TV dials?
I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
When they decided that it ought to go up to 11, the easiest way was to
drop the 1.
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Whenever you see different answers, goto the Straight Dope website.
Cecil Adams is always right,
Here is your answer: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372
I think the answer is mostly right. Notice they moved all the channels up,Rich Grise said:That's the same answer I had, so he must be right. ;-)
Cheers!
Rich
Andrea said:Does anyone know why there isn't a channel 1 on American TV dials?
I've seen many different answers, but which is right?
I think the answer is mostly right. Notice they moved all the channels up,
with ch2 now staring at 54 MHz I suspect what happened was that when the sun
spots came around, they found that there was too much interference from
stations 1000s of miles away. They gave 50 - 54 MHz to the hams. BTW, my
best distance on 50 MHz is around 10,000 miles.
Don Pearce said:When they decided that it ought to go up to 11, the easiest way was to
drop the 1.
Dave Holford said:Before political correctness there was superstition.
A senior FCC official did not like the idea of 13 channels and ordered
that one was to be deleted - in accordance with his directive ONE was
deleted.
stations 1000s of miles away. They gave 50 - 54 MHz to the hams. BTW, my
best distance on 50 MHz is around 10,000 miles.
Tam
Yeah, you still get skip on the lower channels. When I lived in Toledo, IRich Grise said:I guess the cutoff freq. for skip isn't as sharp as they imply.
Cheers!
Rich
I think there is actually a rule covering that. The answer is no. Very hardJames Meyer said:And then there's always moon bounce. Does the milage count for the
round trip?
Jim
Guy said:Urban Myth. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372
Good grief, I hope this didn't get to be an urban myth that fast!
Rich
Incorrect. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_372
Rich Grise said:That's the same answer I had, so he must be right. ;-)
No, about channel 1. Wasn't Green Acres in another thread? About the onlyAbout Green Acres? No way! Green Acre raised self-parody to a perplexing
and surreal level.
Rich Grise said:No, about channel 1. Wasn't Green Acres in another thread? About the only
thing I remember about it was the three naked girls bathing in the water
tower. And ZszZsa, of course. I wonder if working with her was what made
Eddie Albert go prematurely senile.
Not Zsa Zsa. There were three Gabor sisters, Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda. Eva
played on _Green Acres_.