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Old 01-06-2008, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by colorfixer View Post
Most low power UHF translators are fed from an existing NTSC transmitter which is transposed from one RF channel to another without taking it down to baseband (video/audio).

If they are exempt in the U.S. (they won't be in Canada), they will be in an interesting position. When the feeding analog transmitter (usually VHF, sometimes another UHF translator/transmitter) is no longer available, they will cease to function.
I suppose you could use a digital receiver STB with a channel 3 RF output jack to feed the translator input (assuming the translator input can be set to channel 3) to create an analog translated output.
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