I lost interest in numbers stations and am much more interested in trying to figure out who was responsible for the Max Headroom hijacking of 2 TV stations in Chicago that occurred in the late 80’s.
That was wild. It’s hard to imagine that actually happening, but I know it did.
The structure of how TV was setup seems like it would be insanity now. They just used fast scan TV EM signals and bounced them wherever. If you got in the middle between them, or simply pointed a much more powerful transmitter/antenna array at the relay, you could override the signal.
Crazy. WTF.
I recently was looking for anything I could find for the max headroom TV series and couldn’t find a thing anywhere.
There was some urban legend about the (6 ?) beep signals at the end if the TV day that supposedly shut down tv relay stations. You’d hear it as a last thing in the night when broadcasting shut down.
One legend said someone stopped all TV maliciously with it, another that a alarm clock on live TV did the same. Wonder if there was any truth to it.
I lost interest in numbers stations and am much more interested in trying to figure out who was responsible for the Max Headroom hijacking of 2 TV stations in Chicago that occurred in the late 80’s.
That was wild. It’s hard to imagine that actually happening, but I know it did.
The structure of how TV was setup seems like it would be insanity now. They just used fast scan TV EM signals and bounced them wherever. If you got in the middle between them, or simply pointed a much more powerful transmitter/antenna array at the relay, you could override the signal.
Crazy. WTF.
I recently was looking for anything I could find for the max headroom TV series and couldn’t find a thing anywhere.
Oh well.
There was some urban legend about the (6 ?) beep signals at the end if the TV day that supposedly shut down tv relay stations. You’d hear it as a last thing in the night when broadcasting shut down.
One legend said someone stopped all TV maliciously with it, another that a alarm clock on live TV did the same. Wonder if there was any truth to it.