On Tuners and UHF Mods/Adapters

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Just to see if it would work at all, I connected a tube based UHF to VHF converter to an antenna, and the output to a HDTV converter box tuned to channel 6. The tuning was rather fussy, I think because the converter box doesn't expect the digital carrier to be that much off in frequency. Also the UHF converter may add too much noise. With the UHF converter, the resulting digital carrier on channel 6 could be anywhere.

Were you able to get any sort of stable reception of the DTV channels? I tried the same thing with no success.
It would be *really fun* to be able to turn the UHF knob or Converter tuning on an old tv to tune the digital channels.
jr