Thanks! as someone who grew up outside of Europe, it’s been a bit overwhelming when it comes to this old stuff, It’s a parallel univers of incompatible standards.

System L uses positive modulation, while system I, B and G use negative modulation.

Note that France used the SECAM colour system, while the rest of Europe used the PAL system. It was commonly said the systems were incompatible due the PAL/SECAM difference, but the real incompatibility was the L system.

In the past, Greece used SECAM on top of the B/G black&white sytems. A television set from example, the Netherlands, which was for B/G PAL, would receive B/G SECAM signals only in black&white, as it understand B/G but not SECAM.

The same can be said about the PAL/NTSC difference. Countries that uses NTSC commonly use it on top of an incompatible black&white system.

The difference between continental European G and UK I broadcasts is the spacing between the video and the audio channel.

I have seen RF modulators back in the days, like the one that came with a camcorder, to have a switch between G and I.
PAL RF Modulators also commonly have a potmeter to adjust the channel. Such a potmeter is also found at the back of a PAL VCR.

I’ve set it to an aggressive cache on cloudflare as I had someone hitting it every second, and it was causing a bit of havoc. I think it should be doing something now.

I’ll have to check it soonish.

I need to publish the why it’s been going on. So much to fix.. but it’s slowly getting there

I’m seeing the same thing here re: the RSS feed. I’m able to repro the error message (below w/ my IP removed) from my feed reader (a self-hosted system that uses cURL to download feeds), Chrome w/ NoScript, and an up-to-date Microsoft Chromium/Edge in stock configuration.

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I got an error when visiting virtuallyfun.com/feed.

Error code: 1020
Ray ID: 7c185ad968e22d8e
Country: US
Data center: ord07
IP: x.x.x.x
Timestamp: 2023-05-03 12:02:24 UTC