Today's 'Making History' has an article about early TV
 

Richard Brooks said the following on 06/10/2009 23:13:
Ian Jackson said the following on 06/10/2009 22:59:
In message , Peter
Duncanson writes
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:54:40 +0100, Java Jive
wrote:

About 12 mins in - Douglas Walters claims to have received in
England TV pictures from America in 1930 ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ry_06_10_2009/


According to
http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_field_trls.html

the American field trials in New York at that time were in the 2 to 3
megahertz (Medium Frequency) band. Might ionospheric propagation have
been possible?

Without ionospheric propagation, it wouldn't have happened.
Don't forget that, at about that time, in the UK we were experimenting
with 30-line transmissions on the MW, using TV signals recorded on
shellac records. And didn't they also do some transatlantic test on SW?

I seem to remember that there was a tv club of this type and it made a
Babani publication with pictures of channels from around the world on
successful UK tunings.

Sorry, should have added - this was much later of course, probably
around the early 70s.