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Apr 30, 2012 11:21:30 GMT
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Apr 30, 2012 11:27:16 GMT
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Ha ha, excellent! I thought detector vans were quite a recent thing...
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Apr 30, 2012 11:29:36 GMT
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Apr 30, 2012 12:15:04 GMT
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Ha ha, excellent! I thought detector vans were quite a recent thing... Oh hell no; as a kid the twitchiness people showed whenever there was a chinese whisper about the detector van being around was very real. A feeling backed up with ads like this: My Dad never watched Columbo again. ;D
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Apr 30, 2012 12:54:21 GMT
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man that brings back happy memories! used to have a blue dodge/commer in swansea! when i was a kid we used to chase the bloke down the road and harrass the curse word out of him ,good times!!!
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morrisoxide
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It's just a question of style
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Apr 30, 2012 18:13:09 GMT
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Sweet! I might make a clone. Oxford 5 series estate and all, love the Ariel on the bonnet looks like they utilized the badge hole ;D
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BiAS
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Big Brother is watching you...BiAS
@cheeqi
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Apr 30, 2012 22:29:14 GMT
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This......... ...........bagged to achieve that ride height when parked Splumph!
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(car+wheels)-rideheight=WIN
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f3ared
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Apr 30, 2012 22:49:20 GMT
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Hold on a minute....your telling me you guys have to actually PAY 145 pounds a year to watch TV in your own house?
And i thought Australia was expensive...
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Apr 30, 2012 22:56:57 GMT
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Hold on a minute....your telling me you guys have to actually PAY 145 pounds a year to watch TV in your own house? You get a discount if you're blind. Are these vans for real though? To say I've just finished a degree in telecomms and electronics, I can't think how they'd work. Unless they're filtered listening devices?? Were/are they just some clever trick to scare folks into buying their licences? edit: stumbled across this. Seems a lot of engineering for it not to work! I guess back in ye olden days when there was less electronics about the house, the EMFs given off by a CRT may have been significant and distinctive.
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Last Edit: Apr 30, 2012 23:18:42 GMT by SamR380
I've got Rovers.
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Cripes! I don't have a licence for the wireless in my motor car
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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mjd
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berendd
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why do I need 3 keys for one car?
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is a tv license system still in use in the UK? they cancelled it more than 10 years ago in the Netherlands because it wasn't working for new media and was hard to check.
So they still use these sort of vans?
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This......... ...........bagged to achieve that ride height when parked Splumph! EXACTLY what I was thinking. Needs to be done.
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It really does need to be done. Hope it happens. Who's going to step up though?
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Last Edit: May 1, 2012 14:51:25 GMT by jrevillug
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VIP
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It would need some sort of decent engine in it though, for torquey cruising.
A V6 should suffice, no need to go all out on 8 cylinders.
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It would need some sort of decent engine in it though, for torquey cruising. A V6 should suffice, no need to go all out on 8 cylinders. Yeah - linked up to a slushbox it would be excellent.
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buzby
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Hold on a minute....your telling me you guys have to actually PAY 145 pounds a year to watch TV in your own house? You get a discount if you're blind. Are these vans for real though? To say I've just finished a degree in telecomms and electronics, I can't think how they'd work. Unless they're filtered listening devices?? Were/are they just some clever trick to scare folks into buying their licences? edit: stumbled across this. Seems a lot of engineering for it not to work! I guess back in ye olden days when there was less electronics about the house, the EMFs given off by a CRT may have been significant and distinctive. In it's earliest forms the equipment in the back was basically a sensitive radio receiver connected to a directional antenna. The intermediate frequency from the local oscillator in the TV would be reflected back up the aerial so they would listen for that. As the intermediate frequency varied depending on what channel the target TV was tuned to, they could work out what channel you were watching as well. As the article in that GIF states, once TV manufacturers started using integrated circuit tuners the local oscillator frequency did not radiate as strongly, so more sophisticated equipment was needed to detect it. The equipment described in that article could actually reconstruct the picture that was being watched at the target premises. This was actually a byproduct of equipment designed by the secret services to perform remote electronic surveillance on CRT displays and computer monitors (which is why the terminals and monitors in goverment buildings always had extra shielding fitted to them). The US gave this process the codename TEMPEST, the UK called it RAFTER and it was known publically as Van Eck surveillance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking after the Dutch researcher who published a paper on it in 1985 (though it had been in use for many years prior to this). It is still possible to detect modern plasma and LCD displays through the radiation generated by the digital circuitry they contain www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/03/09/video-eavesdropping-demo-at-cebit-2006/ (coincidentally, developed by one of the guys involved in the reverse engineering of the ONDigital encryption system while working for one News Corporation's companies that made the news recently). The address database is the primary tool for licence checking nowadays though.
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How fascinating
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I've got Rovers.
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This was actually a byproduct of equipment designed by the secret services to perform remote electronic surveillance on CRT displays and computer monitors The work to design the TV detector vans was assigned to the DTI and a specific branch was set-up to investigate, design and develop the system. This job was given to the Radio Investigation Service which was a small department specifically startted within the DTI. The RIS mainly came about to deal with illegal radio broadcasts (pirate radio stations and illegal use of CB) but the men behind the RIS also had all the attributes to develop the systems needed to track TV signals. The Radio Investigation Service were key in designing and developing the TV detector vans but that was where their input ends. They didn't run them or use them, that was the job of a whole different branch of the govenrment. My Dad used to work for the RIS until about 1986 and still has a lot of knowledge and info about these vehicles. But I guess that's not the purpose of this thread. I just want to see a Commer on the deck like the one above. Preferably with wheels. And windows. And an engine etc.....
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It's a shame it's not the purpose of this thread - but it's great seeing the pics. These little bits of Government activity that did shape the landscape a bit, roaming vans spying on people. All very Brazil (the movie, not the place).
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