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- From: dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: RE: CATV Block converter wanted
- Message-ID: <8850@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 03:45:06 GMT
- Sender: news@orbit.cts.com
- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
- Lines: 35
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- luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
- >afpauls@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (PAUL SCHWARTZ) writes:
- >
- >>I would like to buy a cable TV block converter, the cable converter that
- >>translates the entire cable band the UHF band. I want to get one to use it
- >>on a TV that channels 2-6 don't work but everything else is fine.
- >
- >>These block converters were very common 10 years ago. Does any one know of
- >>any surplus places that still have them? Or does any one have an old one
- >>that they want to unload?
- >
- >A friend of mine bought one of these at Walmart just a couple of years
- >ago.
- >
- >Have you tried generic TV sources, like Dept. stores or Radio Shack?
-
-
- Radio Shack dropped the block converters two years ago..
-
- Probably about the only place you'll find one is MGM Electronics.
-
- MGM Electronics
- 650 Congress Park Dr.
- Centerville, OH 45459-4072
- 800/543-4330 (order)
- 513/434-6959 (FAX)
- 513/434-0031 (office)
-
- They have a $20 minimum order ($25 minimum charge)
-
- Hmm, I can't find it listed in this catalog right here, but I don't know if
- this is the current one. I remember it in a flyer I got a couple months ago. I
- bought one from them before as well a couple years ago..
-
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