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Re: CATV Block Converter Wanted

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From: Jon Luckey
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 07:45
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afpauls@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (PAUL SCHWARTZ) writes:

>I would like to buy a cable TV block converter, the cable converter that 
>translates the entire cable band the UHF band.  I want to get one to use it 
>on a TV that channels 2-6 don't work but everything else is fine.  

>These block converters were very common 10 years ago.  Does any one know of 
>any surplus places that still have them?  Or does any one have an old one 
>that they want to unload?

A friend of mine bought one of these at Walmart just a couple of years
ago.

Have you tried generic TV sources, like Dept. stores or Radio Shack?
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From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey)
Subject: Re: CATV Block Converter Wanted
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Organization: We don't need no stinkin' batches!
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