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Old 06-02-2014, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
The most important thing about an agile modulator IMHO is it's wireless range. Unless a set was built for the Japanese market (NTSC standard, but with different low VHF channel frequency assignments that are in our FM radio band), has a mostly bad tuner (although if you still have analog cable like me you don't need a modulator to check/deal with that), or is a lousy design that can't take dual sideband video like the predicta, you are wasting your money buying anything more than a cheap consumer RF modulator if you are direct connecting the modulator to the set.
Agreed. I need to get my hands on some wire to build a proper dipole and see how it performs at range. I wouldn't have bothered trying these out if the price wasn't attractive enough vs. a dime-a-dozen cheapie.

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