"Roy J. Tellason" bravely wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (14 Mar
04  20:07:35)
 --- on the heady topic of "{at}%^{at}#$%^ veroboard"

 RJT> MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Peter May:

 MR> Obviously before the advent of cable, TV front ends had a tougher
 MR> time of pulling in the signal. Those early TV's were also better at
 MR> handling multipath

 RJT> Do you think that current stuff is made more for attaching to cable or
 RJT> whatever than it is to attach to an antenna?  I wonder how it's going
 RJT> to be when all that digital stuff finally hits the stores...

One would correctly assume the more expensive top of the line models
would have better tuners but most of the cheaper TVs radiate so much
noise from their own microcontroller circuitry as to make off-air
signals nearly unwatchable on some channels. When did the FCC start
allowing this kind of TV to be sold? The Reagan years?


 RJT> While I'm at it,  I wonder how those various tv cards do in this
 RJT> regard?

The tv cards are good but need a really clean pc rfi wise since most
are real pigs, especially monitors and other peripherals. You can
check this out by turning up the volume on your sound card to max. The
noises in the background are being detected by the audio chain
transistor junctions on the sound card.

 Mike
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... Dunno if we'll get that past the CSA und UL 'owever.
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