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Message Subject In 1977 a supposed Alien Hacked in to ITV news in the UK for 6 minutes to pass on a message, here is that message.
Poster Handle Lucky Charms
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 Quoting: Lucky Charms


They are saying it was a hoax as they can not explain it.

Has anyone been arrested?

Has anyone ever come forward?
 Quoting: oRbZ


So therefore it must be aliens?

Come on.

So nobody was ever busted for it but that doesn't mean they can't explain how it could be done.

the Hannington UHF transmitter was unusual in being one of the few transmitters which rebroadcast an off-air signal received from another transmitter, rather than being fed directly by a landline. As a consequence it was open to this kind of signal intrusion, as even a relatively low-powered transmission very close to the transmitter could overwhelm its reception of the intended signal, resulting in the unauthorised transmission being amplified and rebroadcast across a far wider area.

What's more likely?
A UFO nerd in 70s Britain with good knowledge of electronics?

Or aliens?

Do they teach probability in math class anymore?

You don't "hack" analogue transmissions btw, you hijack them by overiding their frequency with a stronger signal.

How do pirate radio stations get on the air?

The signal needed to overpower the IBA transmission wouldn't have needed to be very strong at all according to the description of their broadcast setup.

The UHF network used was composed of multiple low powered transmitters overlapping and recieving the broadcast from the stations main transmitter.

You only had to hijack that one transmitter.

It happened in America in November 1987, a pirate in the US took over public broadcasting station WTTW 11 during an episode of Doctor Who.

This time it wasn't aliens, instead the pirates chose Max Headroom.

In 1977 the Southern Television IBA was a loose insecure network of low powered UHF transmitters publicly funded, localized and staffed by beards, literally badly paid hobbyists holding it together with spit and sellotape.

Some other beard with a home priate radio setup sat in a field and pretended to be an alien.

People like to hoax things... Dunno why, but they do it all the time.

The gullible masses did the rest as the tabloid press went to town.

The reporting of the incident by the sensationalist media was also heavily criticised by both msm and fringe press at the time.

The whole thing screams hoax and plenty of true believers wanting to believe.

I bet you believe crop circles are aliens too.
abduct
 
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