Radio and Television DX

Short History:
My hobby is FM and TV DXing, receiving distant radio and TV signals. I started this in 1984, and a member of the Benulux dx club bdxc
before that had operated an illegal (FM) radio transmitter for five years. In 1989 I installed a dish for receiving satellite transmissions.In the autumn of 1997 I bought a computer, discovered the Internet, and since then have enjoyed developing my own homepage.

Television standards:
Recently a lot has been accomplished to facilitate easy reception of foreigen broadcasts by simplifying television standards. The discontinuation of the high-difinition French 819 lines standard and the rather poor British 405 lines standard left the world with just 2 standards; 525 lines. (generally accompanied by the American NTSC colour system) and 625 lines (usually in PAL or SECAM colour). The technical characteristics of the various transmission systems are given in the tables below. The colour standards (PAL, SECAM, NTSC) and television
system used by each country are indicated at the top of the country entry. Antenna polarization varies from one transmitter to another and either (H)orizontal or (V)ertical.