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Television Standards Converters, Modulators etc Standards converters, modulators anything else for providing signals to vintage televisions. |
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18th Nov 2006, 11:42 pm | #1 |
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UHF Agile Modulator
made by shinybow ...? Just got one of these from Maplains , just under £20 and i can now watch digital through my 80s Kitchen tv connected through this device and to its aeriel , provision for connecting a recorder to the box too
I expect there is an easier or cheaper way to convert the older scartless tv , but this works very well |
19th Nov 2006, 2:20 am | #2 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
Is it better than a video recorders modulator? I've been running my freeze veiw box and DVD players through the modulators of 3 old video recorders far from ideal. I gave away the only TV I had modern enough to have a scart socket wasn't sorry to see the back of it either my 33 year old G8 is vastly superior and i get all that exercise getting up to change channels I supose what I really need is a 4 channel UHF modulator for when the days of real television transmission come to an end
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19th Nov 2006, 12:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
I dont know if its better than a vid recorders modulator , probably not but its alot smaller than having a redundant vcr in line where i dont want one . I only have one vidio recorder floating about at mo and i use it along with dvd for 405 stuff.
Have you removed the parts from the machine and boxed it up smaller , that sounds a good idea if so. |
19th Nov 2006, 4:03 pm | #4 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
I have a SLRF model, sold by CPC for about £30. It has SCART and phono inputs, and appears to do stereo sound. Tunes to any UHF channel by means of DIP switches, and has a tuning pattern built in. Works very well on the ouput of my FOTH box!
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19th Nov 2006, 4:38 pm | #5 |
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20th Nov 2006, 12:46 am | #6 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
whats a foth box?
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20th Nov 2006, 1:29 am | #7 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
FTOH = Fools On The Hill TV project.
Take a look at this website:- http://www.g1jbg.co.uk/fothtv.htm If you want to discuss it further start a new thread.
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20th Nov 2006, 1:38 am | #8 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
Ok thanks . i know now, Kats project
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20th Nov 2006, 5:03 pm | #9 |
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Re: UHF Agile Modulator
How about using an old satellite box? Pace models since the 9000 series have a modulator that tunes over the full UHF band.
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21st Nov 2006, 1:21 am | #10 |
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I suppose all these things are possible to adapt for the job . Unfortunately im not that knowlegable on them .
But good to keep older sets working . no point chucking good stuff away ! |
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