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Originally Posted by bandersen
After a quick recap and new 6CB6s, it's working fairly well. I was able to pick up four analog UHF stations.
Here it is hooked up to my Sentinel 430 and tuned to MeTV. That's a network that broadcasts classic TV shows and movies.
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I'm amazed there are
any analog TV stations left in the US. Until I saw your post (and one from radiotron), I thought all analog TV in this country had disappeared forever. I live near Cleveland, and all of the city's TV stations, with no exceptions in town, are digital. There was one analog translator in an outlying suburb that carried a religious station on channel 51, but I don't know if that station is still around. The same goes for the three UHF translators carrying the PBS station in Cleveland, although they might still be on until 2015 (the year, exact date escapes me, by which all translators and low-power TV stations must convert to digital) for those viewers still using antennas.
Your Sentinel TV and MeTV sound like a perfect match -- a retro-TV channel viewed on a vintage television receiver that was new when most of MeTV's now-classic shows were new as well.
Do you get Antenna TV in Chicago as well as MeTV? If so (in Chicago, I would think one of the VHF network stations should have it on a subchannel), that network will provide even more good retro programming for your Sentinel 430. I've been watching both networks since they arrived on subchannels of channels 8 (FOX) and 19 (CBS) in this area, and I enjoy them both as they show almost all the TV programs I grew up watching. One of my favorites is Kojak, which I watched every week on CBS in the early '70s. MeTV shows these programs in reruns at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time, and I think they are on earlier in the evening as well, although the time of the earlier airing escapes me as I write this.