Thought about this (for those with lots of sets)

[kbmuri]

This will work!
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthr...224#post857224


Seriously, the reason I'm interested in this hobby is to preserve a "golden age" of TV (1950 +/-). Cable TV was sort of around back then (Zenith "phonevision" for example), but it wasn't really mainstream until around 1975. Then came VCRs, IR wireless remote controls, satellite dishes, MTV and Nick-at-Nite... Not really desireable to run them on a 10-inch roundie in mono Lo-Fi. These old TVs were made for The Honeymooners and Lucy. I put a 2005 el-cheapo VCR on top of my Magnavox briefly, and it looked so out-of-place that I took it back off in disgust.

The least obtrusive "modern" solution I think is the Radio-Shack 2.4 GHz transmitter/receiver pair, hiding the receiver inside the TV cabinet. But that still places the burden of "tuning" on the VCR or Satellite box driving the transmitter, and reduces the vintage TV to status of "monitor". Never using the tuner again. And the cost of putting a separate 2.4G receiver in each TV set.

There are no VHF stations where I live. The only answer for me is to broadcast VHF myself. Sad the Ramsey units suck so bad, but it should still be technically possible to set up somewhere between 1 and 12 "repeaters" of your favorite 1 to 12 TV channels and hide it all in a central closet or basement of the house, and then use ALL your vintage sets as intended without modifying them. My '50 Philco, '51 Zenith, and '64 Zenith sets have VHF antennas built into the cabinets -- no external wires whatsoever (except the power cord of course). As it should be. Even wiring cable to them sort of defeats the purpose of commemorating 1950.

I'm still working on a solution...

- k