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1st Nov 2016, 3:23 pm
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Four valve TV?
Last night I was watching Andrew Marr's Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...heroes-3-spies At around 39 minutes in the author Frederick Forsyth says that whilst working as an agent in the former East Germany he found that his clunky TV contained five valves instead of four. From this he deduced it was bugged. Did four valve TV's ever exist? Somehow I doubt it.
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1st Nov 2016, 3:31 pm
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Re: Four valve TV?
It seems extremely unlikely.
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1st Nov 2016, 3:31 pm
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Re: Four valve TV?
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1st Nov 2016, 4:48 pm
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Re: Four valve TV?
Hybrid set?
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1st Nov 2016, 6:47 pm
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Re: Four valve TV?
I suspect he missed the valves in the screening cans or a hybrid as Dom suggests.. J.
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1st Nov 2016, 11:49 pm
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Re: Four valve TV?
Got TV confused with radio? Stranger things have happened
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2nd Nov 2016, 12:16 am
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Re: Four valve TV?
I heard that remark, too, but interpreted it as an illustrative generalisation as opposed to a literal example. In other words, a layman might pass right over a bug but someone specifically knowledgeable might spot a suspicious anomaly fairly readily. It brought to mind the "hidden in plain sight" case of an unnecessarily sensitive Loran set mentioned by RV Jones.
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2nd Nov 2016, 12:20 am
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Re: Four valve TV?
Wasn't that a Lorenz set?
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2nd Nov 2016, 12:23 am
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Re: Four valve TV?
I suspect you're right Graham....
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2nd Nov 2016, 12:32 am
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2nd Nov 2016, 7:45 am
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Re: Four valve TV?
Could it have been a "piped" TV.
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2nd Nov 2016, 9:49 am
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Re: Four valve TV?
That's a possibility. The East Germans wouldn't have wanted their citizens to receive TV programmes from West Germany.
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