A quick memory from my time in South Korea: On the DMZ in base camp, we in the commo hut had an early 60s Philco TV that needed some TLC. I took it down from its perch on some lockers, took it apart to get to the tuner, etc., and cleaned the dickens out of it. Re-assembled, and connected to the 2-bay conical antenna that faced directly into the high hill in front of the hut. We pulled in AFRTS with much noise in the pic, but one day I was flipping through the channels, and came upon some E-skip (?): a signal probably from Beiging.
It was a "communist folk opera", and looked like the liberation of a village from the evil capitalists by the PLA troops. No audio, but now to the point ( I do go on; sorry): the test pattern during the station break was a portrait of Chairman Mao with an animated sunburst rippling around his head. No one had a camera with film. It's imprinted in my memory, though. BTW, it was low band VHF.
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