The greatest ever find

[larschr]

I was at the dump yesterday to get rid of some TVs i had blown up. As usual, i looked around to see if i could find something cool to take with me. Then i noticed a 1,5 meters tall 19" rack full of cable TV broadcast equipment. The rack was too big to get in the car, so i just took the equipment itself. 8 digital sattelite receivers, 7 VHF modulators and 3 ch converters and all the cables. Of course, i thought it had to be broken; we had some bad thunder storms last week. I brought it home and plugged it in, and all the power LEDs came on. So i connected one of the modulators to a Philips K40 TV and used a Nintendo 64 game console as signal source. I turned it on and pressed the tuning button on the TV, and surprisingly, after a few seconds, i had a crystal clear picture and sound. I don´t know if they are stereo, but if so they are NICAM, because the double-FM system on the Philips did not go into stereo mode. I tested the other modulators too, and all of them works. I have not been able to test the sat receivers because i have no "smart card" and the control unit is missing, but i have no reason to belive they does not work. The LEDs comes on and i hear a "pop" in the TV speakers and get a little flicker on the screen when i plug them in, but the screen stays black. I am not able to test the CH converters either, because i can´t figure out exactly how they works. They are aparrently custom made by a small norwegian company, and manuals may not even exist. I guess this is a once in a lifetime find.