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Old 05-18-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by compucat
I was a kid in the Seventies and the motel TVs always seemed to be missing the UHF tuning knob or had it blanked off. I never knew why as the sets were not connected to cable back then and there was UHF reception in the area. They were hooked into the motel's master antenna system. Was there a reason for this? Has anyone else noticed it?
Were the UHF stations converted to VHF? This was/is done commonly to avoid high-frequency limitations of cables and amplifiers.
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