[BC] German Radio Spying, 1938

[Harold Hallikainen]

>
> Poor man's Arbitron, indeed!
> Back in the '70s, in Central Washington, there was a fellow named "Buzz"
> Barr.  He marketed a listener survey service called the "Barr-ometer".
> He'd drive through neighborhoods, reading the LO radiation of any sets in
> use, and come-up with a potentially realistic audience rating.  No
> accounting for the lady who left the radio on for her canary, however...
> Cheers!
> Randy Wells
> Various
> Santa Rosa, CA

In the 1980s, I helped a Cal Poly student with his senior project. It was
a radio survey meter that would plug inline between a car radio and the
antenna. It would watch LO signal going back down the antenna line and log
the time of any changes.

Harold

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