Phone line as SW antenna [04-Apr-00]
 

Whoops... I meant 300-ohm connectors. Almost every TV has dropped
them since cable took over.

LOL I have an old RatShack 19-incher that use 300 ohm conn for the UHF input.
That was for the little wire loop that used to come with sets for any UHF
station that might get on the air. G

I have 75-to-300 transformer on that, for my external antenna hookup.

Bill, K5BY

Jack wrote:

On 02 Nov 2003 05:40:22 GMT, (WShoots1) wrote:

Whoops... I meant 300-ohm connectors. Almost every TV has dropped
them since cable took over.

LOL I have an old RatShack 19-incher that use 300 ohm conn for the UHF input.
That was for the little wire loop that used to come with sets for any UHF
station that might get on the air. G

I used to mangle those loops to death trying to get the UHF stations
to come in properly. The UHF inputs on TVs are pretty much a rare
beast nowadays. I've got an old 12" B/W Admiral in the other room
with a set of RackShack rabbit ears and a UHF bowtie clipped to them.
In fact, I saw my first VHF television DX on that one, back around '77
or '78. I was in Massachusetts and watched a Florida station clear as
local for nearly 40 minutes until it finally fluttered away.

I have 75-to-300 transformer on that, for my external antenna hookup.

I've got a few of those that came with my Commodore 64 and 128
computers. Built into the TV/Game swicthbox. I still use that old
8-bit machine a lot, though I use the composite video out to a SVHS
monitor for a better picture. (Even got some old packet software for
the C-64, too...)

-jack-

New TV's still tune the UHF spectrum, they just don't have a seperate
UHF antenna input on the back. The VHF and UHF inputs are combined now.
The user has to choose the UHF antenna input using the menu, where it
says something like 'antenna/cable'. If you set it to 'antenna' it will
tune the regular UHF channels (off-air) instead of the cable UHF
frequencies, which are different in some cases.


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