[Electronics-talk] The digital radio TV from Oehm

[George Cassell]

This is nuts!

Modifying a table top radio in order to be able to pick up digital TV 
channels -- and only 2 thru 69 at that.  It's like buying a motorcycle so 
you can add two wheels to it and try to make it into a car.  How crazy is 
that?

Just buy a cheap digital TV that receives, not only the over the air 
channels, but cable channels as well.  Then you can connect it to an 
antennae (rabbit ears or outside deep fringe, if you wish), just as you were 
going to do with that stupid radio, or to a cable and be able  to pick up 
cable channels, or even a cable box and pick up the entire package.

And just what is this digital keypad (which many of the keys don't even 
function) going to do for you?  If it could dial your phone for you, I might 
even think that it goes from being totally nuts to being just plain stupid. 
But it doesn't even do that!

With a standard digital TV (since you want to be able to do the basic 
things), I don't know of any digital TV with which I can't turn it on and 
off, raise and lower the volume, go up and down through the channels, and 
with it's own keypad, punch in the exact channels you wish to watch.  And if 
you can't watch the channels, and simply want to hear them, then put a 
cardboard in front of the screen and pretend that it's a damn radio!

Give me a break you guys.

-- George


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] The digital radio TV from Oehm


Andy,

You could be right, but whether the TV receives cable channels or has a 
coaxial cable connection really should be two separate
issues.  Some antenna systems for digital TV use coaxial cable for 
connection since they use both UHF and VHF antennas.  If the
unit uses two or four screws as was often done in the past to accommodate 
300 ohm twin lead, one could by a transformer to connect
a coaxial cable.  I know you know all this, but it may not be obvious to 
everyone.  I guess to be sure we provide a helpful
answer, we would need to know why a coaxial cable was as important as it 
appears to be, and what sort of antenna connection the
unit has.  It occurred to me that there may have been an assumption that not 
receiving cable channels means no coaxial cable
connection, and that wouldn't necessarily be the case, but I am just 
speculating.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson