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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The top dial on the TV had the VHF (lower number) stations. The bottom had the UHF( higher number) stations. In spite of all those channels being available, many places only had three, maybe four that had a station in range to be received intelligibly.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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