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Re: Cable TV ch 3 shifted to ch 65?

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From: Mike Berger
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:20
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bae@hplsdll.col.hp.com (Bruce Erickson) writes:
>I am looking for a circuit which would take cable tv inputs
>(one is the regular cable, the other the output of the converter
>box on channel 3) and output the regular cable up to (about) 
>channel 60, then put the converter channel on a high channel
>(say 65).  

>I know Radio Shack sells a block converter to shift cable TV channels
>to non-cable channels, but I need a way to not only shift the channel
>but to merge the two signals together.
>Basically I am looking for a way to use the cable box for HBO, and
>yet still allow my VCR's tuner to tune in HBO plus any other non-
>scrambled channel...

>Anybody have this or know where I could find one?  Or, for that matter,
>if anybody has a box to do that for sale?
*----
Scientific Atlanta has these for sale for a few thousand dollars.
You can occasionally find them on the surplus market for less.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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