If you are trying to use this in the North American, South American
markets, no wonder it doesnt work! North american uses NTSC standard,
while PAL/and SECAM are European standards! Think there is also another
standard for Austrailia/New Zeland, tho they might also use PAL.
(and this is before you consider the tv station frequencies difference)!
Jim NN7K



Frank wrote:
Got a small tv in Luxembourg, no channels found (trying both SECAM and
PAL). I suppose I need an external antenna. Something cheap will likely
do the job as signals should be good in this area, but are there any
pitfalls to avoid in order to avoid a 100% useless antenna?


If you live within about 30 km from a station, you should be able to get
some kind of a picture with nothing more than a 1 meter piece of wire
connected to the antenna terminal. Make sure the TV is set for antenna,
not cable. Don't k now the European frequency plan, but here in the US, TV
channels 14 and above are offset by 1/3 of a channel from cable channels
in the same frequency range.

Tam


Found the following on the web. Note the channel frequencies are different
from North America. No mention of VHF for TV broadcasting in the UK.

http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/...is_Ver_1.0.pdf

Frank

"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message
. com...
If you are trying to use this in the North American, South American
markets, no wonder it doesnt work! North american uses NTSC standard,
while PAL/and SECAM are European standards! Think there is also another
standard for Austrailia/New Zeland, tho they might also use PAL.
(and this is before you consider the tv station frequencies difference)!
Jim NN7K

I wonder if you are right. Looked at the original posting, and noticed he
did not exactly say he *lived* in Luxenburg. BTW, some of these countries
use 60 Hz PAL, which would not work with a set bought in EU either. RF
frequencies are guaranteed not to line up, because the channel spacing is
different.

Tam/WB2TT