By Gemma Simpson
Published: Monday 19 November 2007
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Name
Graham Hart
Location
Bradford - UK
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
I have a recolection of reading a story in an old copy of 'Wireles World' from over 50 years ago. In those days, cars were required to have a parking light when parked in the road at night. An unlucky person had been prosecuted for powering his parking light from the emissions of the local radio station at Rugby.
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