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Originally Posted by Arcanine
I have an old 4-Tube Sweep amp, runs on 4 6LQ6 tubes. I bet I could re-tune it to work on the real low VHF bands and give up some power if I felt creative.
I looked over frequency charts before I picked open channels I could potentially use on VHF. Channel 8 was always open in the Analog days here, and Channel 13. I don't think there is much from 2 to 13 in this area, but to be safe I use 13. Seems to give the best results. In the analog days, it was WREX from Rockford, which, even on a big bream antenna aimed at Rockford, it never came in well here, so even if it's DTV signal is sitting there, I am not bothering anyone.
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That sounds like a neat starter rig. I really need to go to some hamfests and look for some homemade 6 meter RF TX amps (which is close-ish to low VHF channels) to try and convert to TV VHF.
If you happen upon a cheap Zenith/LG/insignia DTV box I'd recommend grabbing it. They have really good RF systems capable of getting in weak signals well. I picked the modulator channels on my modulators by using the manual add channels mode on my DTV box to look for empty channels...In that mode the box shows the actual RF channel along with a signal strength meter so a channel that would be missed in a scan, that I might be able to pickup with a better antenna is properly noted.
Lowband VHF is virtually a ghost town so it is often a good place to tune agile mods, and the sold off portion UHF spectrum is probably decent too.
The UHF band tends to be really packed below CH 50 here these days.