alebowgm,

I don't recall exactly how the Rabbit worked but I am pretty sure it would only do one channel at a time not the whole spectrum - but that would be kool if it did, sort of like a VCR that could record all channels off Cable at the same time - talk about bandwidth !!!

Info on Rabbit:
It transmitted one channel over the air. It supposedly had a 100ft
range. It had coax and phono jack inputs.

Larry,
Never heard of this suggestion of yours. I guess it may PO the neighbors however.

-Don

This message was edited by barlow on 06/02/05 14:42 ET.

Right. When I had that circular FM antenna, I took a Pioneer car stereo modulator, made to get the signal from a CD changer in the trunk into the car radio, and put its output through a 10 dB, then a 55 dB amplifier. I could listen to my CD player for about a half mile all around. Illegally, of course.

The only limitations you have with using antennas for receiving and transmitting have to do with how much transmitting current (therefore watts) you are putting out.

That one came after the hardwired version (if you can call a 22-ga. wire 'hard'), which had an RF loop-thru as well as AV, and a small speaker-terminal pair for the thin wire. The receiver had a ch.3/4 modulator and two terminal pairs for daisy-chaining receivers. Plus, the IR remote repeater (also used the wire).


Not to mention the FCC!

Larry,

I still remember my first VCR had a hard wired remote. Maybe I should call it a "trip" wire !!

After fixing it 3 times I was actually happy when NYSEG zapped the power lines in our neighborhood killing a lot of electronic equipment including the VCR.

-Don B

I still have a cable box just like that. Infact, whenever I do finally get cable setup in that room, that is what is going in there (doesnt even say what channel you are on, so I will have to tape it down to the remote... at least it does audio).

But do you remember the even-earlier top-loading VCR's with mechanical tuners (like old TV's)?

How about TV's with mechanical non-UHF tuners (but add-on converters were available)?

Reel-to-reel was king, 8-tracks were replacing 4-tracks, the cassette was for voice... Ring a bell?

Larry, you are old

lol

No, if I were old, I would have mentioned wire recorders, rotating-coil radio tuners, and hand-crank phonographs!

Hmm. Our top-loader VCR had an IR remote that worked from anywhere. I don't know how it would do with Daniel's MTFB test, but you could bounce it off about 4 walls from other rooms with careful aim. And if you held down certain buttons long enough, it would shut off other machines, like the TV.

Larry,

I must be as old as you, and if you check some of my previous posts you will see that I have mentioned about the external UHF tuner on VHF sets. I also mentioned about having to use a close pin to keep the tuner dial on station.

At one point in time the audio went out on the tv and we had to use our floor mounted RCA radio with built in rotating antenna and signal strength tube eye.

The wired VCR was a cheapy model. Wireless remote VCR's were already available. But that goes with out saying as there was always that orginal tuning fork remote that came out very early.

Did anyone else besides Sears sell the 4 trackers ?

-Don B

4 trackers?

My cousin had a 4 track player in his car, It was similar to a 8 track player but had only 4 tracks. As I recall you could only buy prerecorded 4 tracks at Sears to be used in the 4 track player. 8 tracks would not work in the 4 track player.

Hey I could be wrong it has been a few decades.

-Don B

Wow... must have been nice for the 10 total 4 tracks that Sears probably sold... lol

I hear you , I have no idea how Sears thought they would pull it off.

However they were around for quite a few years. Longer than some other technologies out there - like "Tri Bonded Modems".

-Don B

There's a tape supply house near me that has a wall display of tapes, reels, etc glued to the wall and painted over many times. There is an even an Elcaset in there. And recently, going through some things of my mother's from the 1980s, I found an audiocassette case. This case is about 5/8" wider than the cassette. In that added space is a red rectangular button about 1/2"; you push this button and the cassette ejects from the box, just as though from a machine. That's the first one of those I ever saw.