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- From: rose@bucknell.edu (philip rose `94)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: My TV is in a funny spot.
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:02:58 GMT
- Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
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- In article <1349.442.uupcb@ozonehole.com>, gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton) writes:
-
- |> A while back there was a company marketing something called the "VCR
- |> RABBIT." It is/was basically a small UHF transmitter that would
- |> broadcast the output from your VCR so you could watch it on other TV
- |> sets around the house.
- |>
- |> I bet your neighbor has one of these. He probably has a switch box with
- |> the satellite reciever, cable box, VCR, and Genesis game as inputs. The
- |> output goes to the transmitter and his main TV. Your TV is picking up
- |> his signals.
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- The VCR rabbit doesn't broadcast the signal. The signal is sent through
- a narrow bandwidth pair of wires (called miniwire or something like that).
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- Phil Rose
- rose@coral.bucknell.edu
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