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emeritus · 14th Aug 2016, 8:59 pm

In the early 1970's I had a cheap Hong Kong AM/FM pocket portable radio that I found would to pick up sound from the three UHF TV broadcasts on the FM band. This was in the days before the FM band filled up with local radio and commercial stations. I got one for my late uncle, who was hard of hearing. He used to use his with headphones when watching TV before he got a TV with a headphone socket.

I guess a TV sound-only receiver would have required a normal radio licence. From memory, the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 defined a television as an apparatus capable of receiving and displaying television broadcasts, so apparatus not capable of displaying anything would not have been a television for the purposes of the act. The present act uses a different definition.

14th Aug 2016, 8:59 pm	#19
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,339	Re: "Television Sound" on vintage radios In the early 1970's I had a cheap Hong Kong AM/FM pocket portable radio that I found would to pick up sound from the three UHF TV broadcasts on the FM band. This was in the days before the FM band filled up with local radio and commercial stations. I got one for my late uncle, who was hard of hearing. He used to use his with headphones when watching TV before he got a TV with a headphone socket. I guess a TV sound-only receiver would have required a normal radio licence. From memory, the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 defined a television as an apparatus capable of receiving and displaying television broadcasts, so apparatus not capable of displaying anything would not have been a television for the purposes of the act. The present act uses a different definition. Last edited by emeritus; 14th Aug 2016 at 9:06 pm.