gaffo wrote:

Lenny wrote:

"gaffo" wrote in message
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Pirate TV- I'd like to do it on a limited basis- send the signal just
through my apartment building. If the signal goes any farther then
that,
no problem, but it's not a priority.


I found this:

Supercircuits
13552 Research Blvd
Austin TX 78750

This company sells a low-power TV transmitter for channels 3 thru 6
which
appears to be of high quality ($49.95 plus $4.50 S&H). For licensed
radio
amateurs, they also sell some ham TV transmitter kits with 1 to 2 watts
peak output power that can be adapted for use on UHF channels 14
thru 19,
and a linear amp for boosting the output of these transmitters.

Make it interesting and get a digital TV set up. Amateur HDTV.





I heard about an unlicensed TV station in Nashville. Last time I was
down there I make an attempt to find the signal and was
successful. Although the video was not the greatest, the programming
was pretty good. A good dose of political opinion stuff, mixed
with entertainment. At times amateurish, other times professional.

Lenny
Detroit





kewl...............what was their power/range?

when I lived in Austin, we had the UT TV station (out of the
Communications Building) - its range was literally about 1/2 mile. My
friend lived about 10-city blocks from that building, and with rabbit
ears it was "watchable", but not with some video noise.

where I live now we have a 200 watt church station - seems its range
is about the same (1/2 mile).

I'd Imagine that pirate TV was probably less than 200 watts, so we'd
be talking of a range of literally 4-5 city blocks?

Back in 1977 someone put together a pirate TV station in Syracuse NY on
channel 7.
The story actually made it into the New York Times, though not front page.
The Syracuse student paper mentioned that they heard that it was built using
parts from an old gautar amp (actually reasonable if it was a tube rig,
the power
supply is already there, and the output tube could operate on VHF). It was
on for one weekend only. The nearest FCC field office was 150 miles
away, and
when Monday rolled around the pirates were gone. Syracuse was a town so
small
they had only 3 VHF and 1 UHF TV channel, all as conservitive as
anything you'd
find in the Bible Belt. 1977 was the dawn of the VCR, and they played
stuff like
porno and Star Trek episodes.