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06-12-2008, 09:12 AM
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51 year old TV converted to digital
though you guys might get a kick out of this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gital-age.html 
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06-12-2008, 10:34 AM
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06-14-2008, 08:56 PM
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Ok, um, here's a 22-year-old TV that's been "Converted"...
 ...Just one of these: http://search-desc.ebay.com/?fcid=1&...pare&save=Save and a DigitalStream DTV box. No effort whatsoever, just plug-n-play. The whole setup is pictured. As usual, it's freekin hard to photograph a TV picture. It's actually razor sharp. The 500-ft range is a bit optimistic, but it fills a large room or a small house adequately.
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06-22-2008, 07:58 PM
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How good is this unit?
How good is that little transmitter? I live in a fairly rural area and I wonder how hard it would be to extend the range? Granted legally there are limits. But for total disregard to the law
 seeing as my nearest neighbor is some distance away I could get away with MORE POWER. A bigger antenna would help. Circuit wise I wonder if some component substitution would yield a slightly higher output? One could build a linear amp I suppose, but that would be a little overkill and bring someone knocking. I think I am going to order one of these units and try it out. It would be nice to have one in the vhf range tho.I once worked for a cable company and was hooking up a modulator for a reverse back to the headend and the head end tech said "Hooking up an antenna to this would be real fun...and trouble!" Sadly I never got the chance to get an old unit to take home.
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06-22-2008, 09:52 PM
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These (I'm told) will drive an antenna pretty well:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...e=search&fgtp= . Probably outside FCC guidelines, so I'm not officially recommending it... The little UHF transmitter is adequate. More of a toy than a commecial product. I specifically wanted one UHF transmitter for my vintage sets that have UHF tuners (only 3 of them), so they would have at least one UHF signal to look at. The toy serves that purpose acceptably. It does have an RF-out coax port, so you can hook it up to better antennas. Perhaps that's how they got the 500-foot range out of it.
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