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Originally Posted by rpm1200
Also, there was one station that was just a constantly repeating two-tone beep. I believe that they used that signal to sniff out illegal cable connections. The cable company employees could just tune a portable FM radio to that frequency and check for the signal coming from a property that was not paying for cable service.
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I know of one cable system that did this... except that the story was the FM radios in the cable service trucks would be tuned to that frequency so that as they drove around town doing their daily work they could easily sniff out illegal cable connections, and other leaks in the system.