Word: retransmitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane in the sky some distance away from where it actually is. Still largely cloaked in secrecy, the technology depends on mimicry and deception. Once a plane's instruments sense that radar signals are bouncing off it, they identify the type of pulses, memorize them and then retransmit them. But the apparent radar echo is sent back with a different interval between pulses, or with the pulse altered-or both. Ground-based radars that decipher the new signal are likely to locate their target in the wrong part of the sky. As one electronics expert told Aviation Week...
Within the next week or so, Burch and his commission are expected to issue a long-overdue solution. It seemed certain last week that the commission will authorize CATV operators to retransmit distant signals and to get into the business of pay TV. In return, they will have to set aside certain commercial time and a percentage of their gross revenues to reimburse weak local UHF stations, U.S. public (educational) television and the Hollywood copyright owners of their relayed shows...