[TechAssist] Re: CTC140 RVM2630..missing cable channels? Snowafter 64.
- From: "Tel-Tek Electronics)" <teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:56:55 -0400
That's the easy solution. Or sell him a Converter.
-Ed-
Gary McCartney The above is the reply to your message dated 7/27/02 9:40
PM
>
> Get a satellite dish, tune to channel 3 (or use A/V inputs), and screw
> cable!
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> Gary McCartney
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> 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
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Electric Medic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> 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
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>>> 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
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