Greetings All: If I understand the situation correctly , soon the analog TV
bands on my radios will lose their accessibility due to the forthcoming switch
to TV all digital broadcasts.
If this is correct as stated, is their a gadget or work-around that would
continue to give me access to this T
Good question, but I doubt our radios will be able to receive TV digitals
signals.
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From: "Dave Mitchell"
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Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:58 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Analog TV bands on Radio
> Greetings All: If I understand the situation cor
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:58 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Analog TV bands on Radio
Greetings All: If I understand the situation correctly , soon the analog TV
bands on my radios will lose their accessibility due to the forthcoming switch
to TV all dig
I talked to the people at the C Crane company and they said it would be a
year or so before they could once again have there radios be TV band ready.
hear anything promising. Mitch
- Original Message -
From: Ron Yearns
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Analog TV bands on Radio
From what I have been told the V H F t v stations will no longer broadcast
any
Mitch,
The best way to solve this problem is to get one of the digital converter
boxes available via the government cupons and from Radio shlock, Best buy
and other sources.
These have two ways of getting audio and video out of them:
1. An R.F. connector like for T.V. cable.This can be set to
prod
And, since I'm feeling rebellious and anti establishment today,
Here's something somebody might try which would be quite illegal.
Take the digital to analog converter box, which
presumably has been set up with power and an antenna.
Connect its R.F. output, which would be set to either chanel 3 o
yes, digital tuner boxes available for about $40. But the broadcast
strength is so weak that you'll need a powered antenna in most cases.
The phillips 50db amplified is one of the highest amplification out there.
The switch master is the 26db amplified box with the most boost.
So you could p
Or itf your radio has any provisions for a external antenna some form
> of adapter with a converter box could work.
> Ron
> - Original Message -
> From: Dave Mitchell
> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:58 AM
> Subje
sorry, I didn't know their output was channel 3 or 4. apologies.
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Mitch,
> The best way to solve this problem is to get one of the digital converter
> boxes available via the government cupons and from Radio shlock, Best buy
> and other sources.
> These h
Spiro,
Nope, the converter boxes output on analog VHF chanel 3 or 4, just so as to
work
into almost any old piece of junk everybody has.
tom
: Spiro
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Analog TV bands on Radio
only if the radio is able to decode uhf, for if it is a 3-13 channel TV
radio; it won't know what to do with the signal, right?
On Thu, 28 May 2009
nnel, leave it there and tune the new digital tv stations with the
> converter box.
> Ron
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> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:31 PM
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> > TV bands on my radios wil
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