[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

[Alex Duffield]

This is a very basic portable TV (can run off batteries) port wise all it
has is an external Ariel port (it has its own) and an analogue scroll type
tuner

On 5 Sep 2017 6:02 p.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like you just covered all the points I was thinking of there Tim.
>
> If there is no scart, I doubt there would be scart on B&W, or no composite
> yellow and white, there is another way to add an AV input relatively
> cheaply.
>
> A playstation one Rf cable...
> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=262919102923&alt=web
>
> This model is the easiest to use...
> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=282545392453&alt=web
>
> Just plug in or solder your AV to the inputs and feed it 5V.
> Inside the casing, the wires coming from the PSX multi cable will be left
> audio, video and 5V,  easy to see two of them going to the external phono
> sockets, the one that is not is your 5V input for the circuit.
>
> I wouldn't expect a B&W set to show the Rf channel but for reference,  if
> you wanted to test it on a newer set that receives both analogue and
> digital,  these units (pretty much all fixed Rf units of that era) will
> output on CH36.
>
> I've hacked a similar unit to send an AV signal upstairs through the
> existing coaxial cable.
>
>
>
>
> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Davies T." <t.davies at swansea.ac.uk>
> Date:2017/09/05 2:44 PM (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>
> Dear Alex,
>
> I agree with previous suggestions that you use a Freeview box.
>
> There is of course the issue of connecting the TV to the Freeview
> box. If the TV is really ancient then it only has a aerial socket on
> the back, so you will have to make sure the Freeview box has a
> UHF modulator fitted. The Freeview box then appears as a new
> station (the only one in the whole tuning range!) and the channel
> change is of course on the Freeview.
>
> If the TV has a SCART connector, then it's easy. You just need to
> use a SCART lead to connect to the Freeview box, and again you
> select channels using the Freeview.
>
> Some smaller sets had two RCA sockets, one white, one yellow.
> If that is the case you need a SCART to RCA lead.
>
> I would not use an up-to-date Freeview box, try and obtain an
> old one because the latest boxes may not have SCART or a UHF
> modulator!
>
> Next step is to look closely at the front and back of the TV for
> connectors. As a minimum there will be a TV coax socket for
> the aerial. Hopefully a SCART or some RCA connectors as well.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Timothy Davies
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk [
> hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk] on behalf of Alex Duffield [
> alexmduffield at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 05 September 2017 11:57
> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
> *Subject:* [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>
> I have a 7inch b&w old portable TV in full working order, but of corse is
> analogue and there is no analogue transmissions left in this country, it
> works well as a radio but I would like to get it to pick up atleast some
> tv, anyone know a way to do this? I appreciate it's some pretty ancient
> tech nowadays lol
>
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