It's desperateness, fear-mongering and the media's compliance with those in power to control
the British people. It will never stop and it is fake.
the British people. It will never stop and it is fake.
Quote:BBC warns over TV Licence 'detector vans' after 500,000 people cancelArchived Birmingham Live Article:
BBC figures show a staggering half a million households have cancelled their licence fee this year.
The magic van.
'The BBC has broken its silence over claims "TV Licensing detector vans" have hit the streets following
500,000 households cancelling their fees. The BBC figures show a staggering half a million households
have cancelled their licence fee this year.
As such, TV Licensing has a handy guide on its website over enforcement for people not paying their
fees but breaking the rules by watching the Beeb. "We have a range of detection tools at our disposal
in our vans," it says.
"Some aspects of the equipment have been developed in such secrecy that engineers working on specific
detection methods work in isolation - so not even they know how the other detection methods work."
It adds: "This gives us the best chance of catching licence evaders."
Responding to hoax speculation, a BBC official remained coy about how the vans were used, stating:
"Detector vans are an important part of our enforcement of the licence fee. We don't go into detail
about how many there are or how they work as this information might be useful to people trying to
evade the fee."
The rumour of vans being a hoax has circulated for years, with one web user writing previously:
"There are no TV detector vans. It was originally a PR stunt to frighten people into thinking they could
be detected and then pursued for not having a TV licence. There are still no TV detector vans. The way
they can tell is if you don't pay your direct debit or move into a home which did have a TV licence but
which hasn't renewed the license."
"They work by detecting the electromagnetic signature that your television gives off. They are so accurate
that they can tell you where in the house the TV is, and they can indeed see the channel you are watching,"
a second said, disagreeing.
Another said: "I believe they pick up the signal from the local oscillator in your TV. When radio or television
signals are transmitted the audio or video signal is superimposed on a 'carrier wave' - a process known as
modulation. When you tune the set it is the frequency of the carrier you tune to. To retrieve the original audio
or video signal it is necessary to demodulate the composite signal.
"That is achieved by 'mixing' it with a locally-generated signal of the same frequency as the carrier. Hence
the need for a local oscillator. As the different channels use carrier waves of different frequencies it is
presumably possible to tell which you are tuned to by measuring the frequency of the radiation emitted
by the oscillator."...'
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