From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:33:56 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <JonWienke@aol.com
Subject: Re: Beat Remote Monitor Snooping?
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At 10:46 PM 3/13/96 -0500, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>Visual contrast is not the same thing as frequency diffrence. It is quite
>easy to measure extremely small changes of phase.  As in, your
>plain-vanilla FM receiver.

However, that's not how SVGA CRT's do it.  NTSC (TV video) modulation is done by phase modulation of the 3.579545 MHz subcarrier.  SVGA has three different baseband analog signals feeding three electron beams.  

Even so, they still should be able to pick up SVGA with a little tinkering.

> What's his name put this stuff together in the
>mid 1930's.

Ed Armstrong