[TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow after 64.
- From: dek <dek@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:26:51 -0400
Who's the guy with the amplified antennas? Give him my email addy. I'd
like more info on it.
Doug
Tech Repair CD support wrote:
>
> Already suggested that.
> Actually, this guy was telling me he will be getting and using an antenna
> amplifier of which he can get channels many states away. He asked if I knew
> any
> young people that might like to learn this trade of installing these amplified
> antennas.
> Everyone I talk with that is upset with cable, I try to encourage to switch to
> satellite, but you know how many people do not like change.
> My wife didn't, but now she loves the satellite and especially the TIVO.
> I believe Eugene gave me a fix for this problem. I will try his suggestion
> and let
> the list know.
> Jeff
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary McCartney" <number63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 9:40 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow after
> 64.
>
> Get a satellite dish, tune to channel 3 (or use A/V inputs), and screw
> cable!
>
> Gary McCartney
>
> McCartney Electronics
> 7134 Fife Rd, RR 7
> Guelph Ontario Canada N1H 6J4
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> email: number63 (at) inetsonic.com
>
> Perry Hill Electronics Service wrote:
> >
> > Those old sets are history. Some of the mid-band cable channels can be
> > received. Of course the OSD number assigned to these channels by the
> > micro will be arbitrary. Throw that sucker in the river! Or lake.
> > Whatever is most conveinient
> >
> > Mark Wentowski
> > Perry Hill Electronics Service
> > 3836 Harrison Rd
> > Montgomery, AL 36109
> > Voice: (334) 279-5622
> > Fax: (334) 273-9050
> > Email: phes1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Electric Medic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:30 PM
> > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
> > after 64.
> >
> > >
> > > Jeff:
> > >
> > > I can not believe more people are not responding to this. Interesting
> > > subject, and we have seen it many times. I am not 100% on the CTC140,
> > of
> > > course subbing the tuner will tell you for sure, but..I can not tell
> > you how
> > > many older sets that have digital tuners that will NOT pick up today's
> > > modern upper cable channels even though the OSD says it is on that
> > channel.
> > > We see it a lot especially since cable companies are adding more
> > channels.
> > > Customers do not understand why their set does not pick them up. I
> > have to
> > > believe it is because the cable channels on the upper bands are a
> > different
> > > freq than the TV. I have even seen some current lower band cable
> > channels
> > > come in on the upper channels on those older TV's. Sometimes they even
> > > repeat themselves. I mean you receive the same cable channel on maybe
> > > channel 12 on the TV and the same channel on 54 on the same TV.
> > >
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> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of C&W Electronics
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 6:10 PM
> > > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
> > > after 64.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeff,
> > > I'm an old tv repair guy also, but you might look on the back for a
> > UL#. If
> > > it's there, it's a US set, if not, then it's Canadian.
> > >
> > > Seems like there were some problems with the diodes in the tuner. They
> > had
> > > to be all replaced as a set, either 5 or 7 diodes. These were varactor
> > > diodes and determined the frequency, but it's been a looong time since
> > I
> > > worked on a 140 chassis.
> > >
> > > Paul W
> > > C&W Electronics
> > > Azle Texas
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Tech Repair CD support" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > To: "Techsonline" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [TechAssist] CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snow
> > after 64.
> > > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:53:18 -0400
> > >
> > >
> > > Customer is an ol' TV repair guy, out of the business since the 70's.
> > > I sold him this set and cable channels stop at 64. Trying to get
> > channel 71
> > > and he
> > > was insistent that there was a fine tuning for each channel....I tried
> > to
> > > explain
> > > that has been changed for some time.
> > > Anyway, manual says this set should get up to 91 cable channels in US,
> > 64 in
> > > Canada.
> > > The fact that the TV OSD will go up to 90, leads me to believe set
> > should be
> > > receiving these channels above 64.
> > > Do I have an electrical problem, or was this set made for Canada?
> > > We are both curious about this problem.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > FAX 717-564-4952
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