It was 38 years ago today...........

Yes I remember it well - we didn't have a local tv transmitter at our town.
In fact we had no local transmitter intil late 1974.
We were over 200 miles from the nearest tx. It meant having an external
aerial placed about 20 or 30 feet or more high above the house plus a high
gain aerial plus (if you could afford the extra) and rf pre-amplifier.
The very few people that did have tv sets in our town had b&w (no colour tv
then) and relied on the occasional burst of good signal propogation to see
(maybe) 5 or 10 minutes of only just watchable picture. One of our local
petrol service stations had a tv set, and watch we did - through the most
horrible "snowy" picture we just caught a glimpse of that historic moment.
:-)

Graham
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I'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing.


"Bruce R" wrote in message
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

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Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

I was working as a control room operator at CKPR TV
in Thunder Bay Ontario while going to college and I
drew the short straw.

I got to stick around after the late nite movie watching
the Indian head test pattern until three AM when I switched
on the national feed and watched Neil take his walk.