How to increase range is simple. Get a signal distribution amplifier with multiple outputs and modify it to have only one output being fed all the signal to an antenna pick a channel that you want to use and cut or make an antenna tuned to the frequency. This wont get you more than a mile or 2 range with the antenna placed four or five feet above your roof. But really thats pretty good . By the way this works for fm too. If you use one of those little fm transmitters you can plug into a headphone output on your phone or walkman.

The amtechdirect link goes straight to Inventec. You might want to change it to Stirri.

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I just wanted to watch dirty clothes get clean @_@

I would definitely use jb weld as an epoxy but you don't sound American so im not sure if that is available to you

love it

Thank you for this!

50 euro plus a tenner shipping. and ali just shows "not available in your country" .... yeah nah thanks

This is brilliant

I just bought one of these and hooked it up and it works really good

We had a device like this at home in the 90s. A video sender, don’t know the brand. It was only a fixed channel/freq it was set to. We used it to transmit the VCR signal to my bedroom as a kid. We only had 1 rental VCR.

Quality. Breathing new life into old CRTs. Love it.

The antenna connection, is it F-type, or SMA? It looks almost the same as a connector on a WiFi antenna…

Der Siemens FD200 ist auch ein Computer mit TV Tuner aus der selben Zeit. Habe auch einen Wandler für analog TV Ist prinzipiell ein alter Hut. Aber der ist recht klein

I ordered some "V2" Amtech via Amazon Listing in germany lately and it also seems to be ASM labeled with V2. It has the UV trace and the same color as the fake V2 you were talking about.

Some of that static is the Cosmic Microwave Background!

i don’t have a 3D printer. would you be interested in potentially making a few of the cases and selling them? i’d love to get a case. thanks in advance. if not you, maybe someone here would be interested. please let me know.

Can U use a Outdoor TV Antenna on a Analog TV Transmitter to broadcast a Analog TV station

i love this so much! thank you for sharing. this has so many possibilities. I honestly think everyone should have one of these in their home for a “just in case” use at the very least. i don’t like channels that constantly catastrophise (is that a word?) everything - doomsday type content. However, there is content that is valuable to everyone on those channels without constantly saying that you need these things because the world is going to end (if it’s ending who cares). There’s always natural disasters and with solar flares becoming more frequent and attacks on infrastructure becoming more realistic, EMP weapons being potentially used and reports of ships cutting cables in the ocean that are vital for information and networks, etc. these have real world uses. It would be so nice, really vital, to have something like this on hand if even something temporary happens to be able to reach out to others, have entertainment, and more importantly to be able to hopefully find news outlets and updates that have switched to analog during the crisis. for more fun uses, I am thinking in terms of how people people used to have their own channels and shows that they would broadcast, things like Wayne’s World were modeled after. I believe those were still analog, but something similar even if it wasn’t. That would be so much fun for kids to try and set up for friends and such and to get them interested in learning about older technology and how it evolved, etc. Lots of potential here for a variety of uses. quick question: are we not able to watch old VHS movies and such on digital TVs? I haven’t really tried.

Do they make an ATSC for USA ? Or only PAL ?

Instead of the antenna connect it to the internal coax wired to the rooms of your home, as if it were the antenna. All the sets can hook to it. Not as convenient as wireless broadcast, but less interference and better signal.

A late friend lived in a building that had a pre-existing rooftop antenna system. When she lived there (Late-2000's/early-2010's) most residents had abandoned it for subscription digital services. (Satellite and broadband cable) I imagine if this were connected to it--with a substantial boost in signal--it could've provided the entire building with it's own private TV channel, if not radiated an RF signal strong enough to wireless-ly reach receivers within the building... and perhaps a few others close-by.

Could there be any issues with the broadcast interfering with digital radios or mobile networks? Hopefully it's all kosher with the ACMA 🙂

Thanks for the great info and sharing your skills it's greatly appreciated, subbing now for more good content, keep up the great work

Couldn't you do then same with an old VCR, and antenna amplifier and antenna? I mean, most old VCRs will modulate the video input and put it out on TV channel 3 or 4. So if you put that signal to an amplifier and an antenna, isn't that all you need?

Ive been thinking about doing that!!!

I'm suspecting that this device comes from China and maybe illegal in the United States.

A nice little transmitter, shame there is no option to stretch the pic a bit for less top and bottom bars (yes you'd lose a bit from the sides) You seem to have a nice collection of TV's, I'd like one of those ball TV's, but I'll probably never find one. I do have an 'Apple TV', however it's not what you have, it's not even made by Apple, it's a TV shaped as an apple, complete with a stem and leaves sticking out the top. I've thought of doing something similar, but via the TV antenna 'network' in my house, However having all the computer gear running just in case I wanted to watch a random old movie, seems like a awful waste of power. Maybe a Raspberry Pi etc....

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I like the anlog tv channel idea!

I remember recently seeing someone on a forum showing something similar but never found out what it was. Glad you made a review, definitely look into it, thanks

Finally something simple.

That thing is harmless as long as you don't connect a power amplifier behind it. In some regions the old analogue TV frequencies have been re-allocated to different services.

SIF = "Sound Intermediate Frequency"

Great idea

If I remember correctly, they made a converter at the time of the switch to use to get reception. It was rather bulky.

To get the proper effect, you’d have to put together an “end of broadcast day” spot to be played at midnight, followed by proper static until 5 or 6 am, and then a “start of broadcast day” spot. At least, that’s how it worked here in the US. (I hate that you have to explain that basic fact of life for youngsters to understand the movie Poltergeist.) I hope that you make yours as over-the-top Australian as possible.

I would absolutely add in some Vintage commercials to the play list.

I looked this up and all the listing state if you use the AV input, it can't output N, which I assume means NTSC. Do you have an NTSC TV to test? Really want one, but need NTSC. Thanks!

What a concise, clear, logical presentation

What is the minimum volume necessary to be used? I have small batches for bicycle parts, but also a marine diesel. Don't want to buy two different sized cleaners though

In the 90’s I was a otr trucker here in the us. Not related but I owned a sega game gear with the tv tuner and I used it many times. I never was big on tv but it was an option. Anyway just something this reminded me kf

SIF=Sound Intermediary Frequency. Is the distance where the sound carrier is from the video carrier. Note that you can select the channels in "steps", one step is the channel width and it can be 6, 7 or 8MHz. The Sound IF can be at 4.4, 5.5, 6 or 6.5MHz, depending the TV standard. For example, PAL B have the channel width 7MHz and the sound is at 5.5MHz while PAL D have the channel width of 8MHz with sound at 6.5MHz. If your TV (only the oldest ones, I think) is made for PAL B, then you will hear no sound if the transmission is in PAL D, but the image will be ok. Newer TV sets are multistandard however and are able to demodulate the sound at 5.5 and 6.5MHz if were meant to be used in a multistandard area. For example, in Europe, there are different TV standards (PAL BG in western Europe and DK in Eastern Europe). Australia use PAL B and D so any SIF you select, will be ok. Edit: About selecting between VHF and UHF, I would suggest using VHF because the RF signal being at a lower frequency, it passes easily trough obstacles like walls made of rocks, bricks and armed concrete. Basically it have a larger range. Also, older TV sets do not have UHF band or is not so sensitive.

I do this I have both Digital tv channels and a UHF one and the HD ones play films on my TVs

Thanks a bunch for sharing this. I've recently tried using only video streamers but they havent exactly worked well. Had no idea someone had made a modern alternative. ALso thanks for the case!

As a ham, I have a transmitter that was built from a kit years ago and it transmits to switchable UHF channels, I even have a small power amplifier made from the power brick from a UHF Motorola Mocom 35 which gives me about 10 watts output when the transmitter is programmed on certain UHF bands. Now the fun part is that living in the EU and working on a frequency within the ham band I can transmit at 10 watts but it’s a NTSC signal and old euro analogue TV's cannot receive the signals. I do have several flat computer monitors that do have built in NTSC analogue tuners.

Would hooking up a TV directly to the antenna output (using 75 ohm coaxial cable) work?

A good FOSS alternative to Plex is Jellyfin, I use it

I love this idea so much. It almost makes me wish I lived in a big apartment complex so I could run a pirate TV station lol.

Now I kind of want a stack of these connected to Raspberry Pis all networked to a couple HDHomeRuns to rebroadcast all my local digital channels as analog again. :-D