| UHF...VHF...Rabbit ears..... | | I just answered a discussion about those old rotary phones, wanting to know who remembered them and stuff. That discussion reminded me of something else.
Does anyone remember the old TV's? I'm talking about the ones that had two dials on them for changing the channel, before the days of cable and remote control. There was a UHF dial and a VHF dial. In order to get channels on The UHF dial, you had to set the VHF dial to a certain place first; but the VHF dial worked independently of The UHF dial. These TV's also had the rabbit ear antennas. Does anyone remember these old TV's? How many of you used to own one? We had one of those types of TV's in our house when I was a kid. | |
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| | UHF radio and audio adopter | | i am using military radio ARC164. i have adopters MX1646A/AIC nsn 5965001683608 and MX1646B/AIC nsn 5965010178741. The two are given as substitute of each other onthe net . but they are not working out with me. i replaced A type with the B type but B type only gave me noise and no audio. Can some body give me the difference between the two? can some one send me the circuit diagrams or technical specs. i will be a lot grateful. | |
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| | Remember the local video store? | | My family recently signed up for a popular mail-ordered movie rental service.... you can probably guess which one... Anyway, I was just thinking about the changes in technology over my lifetime. This is how I remember the progression of TV in my own history. When we were kids, we had a black and white TV and a color one. Shows would advertise the fact that they could be seen "in color". We had 3 local stations plus UHF (remember that?). No cable. Just rabbit ears and eventually a gigantic antenna on the roof. No remote control. You had to get up off the couch to change the channel. Kids' programming was Saturday morning or after school. No videos. No video games. Then we bought our first Atari set. Pong, combat, tennis. Pri - ma - tive..... but really exciting then!Then we had a VHS player. Very expensive and so were the movies. Other ppl had beta or even the video disc players with the huge album-looking discs. Then came cable TV and we could finally get better reception (that is if cable wasn't down that day!) That was the era of the local video store. There seemed to be a mom and pop video shop on every corner. They were hoppin' too! Our local gas stations and... | |
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| DTV transition..are you ready? (US only--sorry!) | | As myLotters in the US are aware, there has been months of talk about the DTV transition set to take place next month (originally in February). How many people are actually ready?I bought 3 TVs in January 2004--they'd be considered new, right? WRONG! None of them were able to be used without a converter box. I sold two and the third I've still got. My roommate has cable (and pays for it), so we don't have to worry about it. I previously had DirecTV, but not everyone can afford that luxury (I know I can't!).So how many of you are prepared (either through converter boxes, cable or satellite)? I feel like this is being forced on us...too many are actually unable to pay the electric bill, let alone buy a converter box or cable! And after the government ran out of the coupons in the first round, I never heard of them again! I feel that if the government wants to reserve the current analog signal for emergency use, perhaps they could have paid for the converter box? Or maybe the government got the VHF stations, while smaller stations got the UHF (weaker) stations, so at least everyone had the opportunity to watch something? I just feel like it's a bit unfair to those of us who... | |
| | It's a wonder that we know what we are talking about. | | There was this SWM I met at the PTA meeting. He had a PHD in childhood disorders like ADD and ADHD. He drove a BMW, in which he went speeding down the road at 80 MPH. After he left the PTA meeting he was talking on his iPhone in the car to his GF. She wasn't really paying attention to him because she and her BFF were speeding down the highway in a VW. They were on their way to the store to see if they could by some food without MSG. One of them told a joke so the BF, the GF and the GF's BFF were all LOL. The BF said, "That's why I love you darling, you are always able to make me LMAO." When the GF and her BFF arrived home with their MSG-free goodies, this SWM who was her BF proposed and she accepted. They left the party to go talk to a minister who had his MDiv in theology. He told them that before they get married, they should see an MD for bloodtests for VD, HIV and other STDs. While they were on their honeymoon, the new bride got upset. Her DH apparently had wandering eyes and kept saying, "Now there's a MILF!" When they returned home she immediately phoned her BFF and they went out for drinks so she could cry about her frustrations. Since the BFF had a BS in... | |
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