who would rather jack was behide the southern tv hijack

[radionortheast]

This was one of my favourites the voice of vrillion, you do wonder how it was done, suspected it was someone nearby, interuption of the audio carrier, sounds like they had to inject something into it, video was unaffected.

[EFR]

Back on analog days, link from main transmitter in bigger city to the second transmitter was always somewhere on UHF band, sometimes even just a regular relay from main transmitters signal.

Someone just needed simple analog tv rig, nice amplifier and long yagi setup on a hill or a rooftop near secondary transmitter, but at the direction of main transmitter. Turn rig and amp on, maybe "beep the receiver" and ask your friend at home did you get over that transmitter, if yes, just trow your own show from VHS casette.

Back in the day, they did just turn tv transmitters off for night time here. Someone maybe had an scanner an tape deck on a hill, listening audio carrier and waiting digital beep, that turns transmitter on at morning. When you did get it to the casette, you had the keys to turn that secondary transmitter on. Thats the "beep the receiver". Diffrent beep was used to turn transmitter off.

Remember, on cases like this, aluminium on antenna has cheapergain than amplifier

[shuffy]

This was one of my favourites the voice of vrillion, you do wonder how it was done, suspected it was someone nearby, interuption of the audio carrier, sounds like they had to inject something into it, video was unaffected.

Northeast you probably already know about this, there's a podcast on the subject called "The Interruption" which you can find quite easily online. A colleague of mine told me about it 2 or 3 years back thinking I might have been interested. Not sure why, as he didn't know I had an interest in radio, I'm not religious or into alien phenomena (and in my opinion at least, I don't look much like one...)

Doesn't start getting down to the real business of what happened until way too late on but overall I enjoyed it, I think you'll like it if you haven't heard it before.

[radionortheast]

The alien thing is probably related to some nostalgia here for the 90’s, Roswell, was a lot about it on energy 106 adverts, there was a fun factor to it, maybe people found it fun further back too. It featured a lot in music at the time too I think, with a popular video of someone dancing on mars, maybe mentioning it, effiel 65 blue, independence day, the aliens coming over the tv station, alot of this is dorky.

I’ll have to look out for that podcast, I rarely deviate from wikipedia youtube, I don’t agree with using subcription based things, I do see the podcast icon, does seem like its there on apple.

There was the maxhead room incident is another too, i think it was more sophisticated, sounded like he had to be on a building intercepting the beam, what it was about is hard to understand, seemed abit disturbing too, it happened during an epsoide of dr who. They never found who did either, ringway said these things were happening to on the radio before, I don’t know if they were meaning fm, radio 1 didn’t start on fm until 1989, must of been meaning radio 2 or something.

[jvok]

Back in the day, they did just turn tv transmitters off for night time here. Someone maybe had an scanner an tape deck on a hill, listening audio carrier and waiting digital beep, that turns transmitter on at morning. When you did get it to the casette, you had the keys to turn that secondary transmitter on. Thats the "beep the receiver". Diffrent beep was used to turn transmitter off.

Wasn't there a case a few years back where a (swedish?) band recorded the shutdown tone and used it in a song? When the song was played on air the whole network shut down

[EFR]

Back in the day, they did just turn tv transmitters off for night time here. Someone maybe had an scanner an tape deck on a hill, listening audio carrier and waiting digital beep, that turns transmitter on at morning. When you did get it to the casette, you had the keys to turn that secondary transmitter on. Thats the "beep the receiver". Diffrent beep was used to turn transmitter off.

Wasn't there a case a few years back where a (swedish?) band recorded the shutdown tone and used it in a song? When the song was played on air the whole network shut down

Quick Google search returned Finnish MC Kemppainen & Lindelltronics and their LP Rappilan Hatavara, song was Maan Tapa on B-side.

That rap song seems to be blacklisted on whole country back then.

I wasnt able to find it.

[EFR]

Ah! Here it is at the end!

[radionortheast]

You do get alot in songs were it says this is test, I like these kinds of songs have a few, they might go and test the left and right channel, the one I have has a deep voice. The doppler one is old now is from all the way back in 2007, used to go out through my stereo encoder all the way back then, sorry anyway didn't mean to inflict this anyone.