What's going to happen to these?

[ChrisW6ATV]

There are no ATSC converters nearly that small yet, but in a year or two I hope to see some. There are ATSC tuners with USB connectors, made for computers, that are smaller than a candy bar.

[jeffn]

I have a unit I bought last weekend at a garage sale called a "Princess Walkabout". Its a colour CRT and cassette and radio. If anyone knows anything about her please tell me.........

[Richard D]

Originally Posted by jeffn

I have a unit I bought last weekend at a garage sale called a "Princess Walkabout". Its a colour CRT and cassette and radio. If anyone knows anything about her please tell me.........

You may be getting bored with signatures but your Avatar is way cool. Reminds me of my first real bike (had a Honda 50 when I was 15 because of restricted drivers license) In 1973 when I could not buy enough gas to get to and from work, radio station was 24 miles from home (plus I drove a new1973 Camaro LT) I bought a Honda 750. The thing was built like a Swiss watch and I sold it in 1976 for more than I paid for it. I know, off topic, sorry.
Richard.

[dr.ido]

I have seen the exact set that you have, but I don't have any information on it.

B&W TV/radio/cassette combos are reasonable common around here, I see one at least every couple of weeks. The color ones are a lot rarer. I actually picked up an NEC color TV/radio/cassette combo on Friday. Strangely it's yet another Japanese market set that is completely useless in this country.

I've seen some stranger combo units that I now wish I had grabbed. One was an AIKO 5" Color TV/radio/dual cassette/turntable combo. It was by no means portable so 5" CRT was a bit too small to be practical. The other was a Japanese Sharp 21" TV/Laser disc/8 track cartridge karaoke combo system.

[peverett]

Radio Shack sold (and may still sell) room to room TV transmitters. I have a couple of these and they work ok. They take a composite video and sound input. As with any transmitter, you are locked into the station being transmitted and must go back to the source to change channels.

I will have to try the rabbit ear trick mentioned by fsjonsey.

[Radiophile2001]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

We collectors need to figure out how to set up low-power VHF TV signals that radiate through our homes, for purposes like this.

This is what I bought, but it looks like UHF only......500 feet ain't bad for $27.99. (although haven't tested it yet.....may wait until 2/17/09!)

http://stores.ebay.com/2FastTodd_UHF...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

[ChrisW6ATV]

A couple of my friends have those UHF mini-transmitters, and they might work OK except that most old TVs do not have UHF tuners.

I own a couple of cable-TV-type commercial VHF modulators that I am going to experiment with eventually. It will be fun to connect them to ATSC tuners on different channels, add an MATV amplifier and local antenna, and see what I get.

[Radiophile2001]

I was really looking for a ch. 2-83 modulator, but since my collection only includes '67-'75 color sets, I kind of wanted UHF anyway.
Now, just got to find me a '64-'66 Roundie that works!

[fujifrontier]

same here :shifty: