just got one of these for $8, how do i get video on this? just antenna, no input ports
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just got one of these for $8, how do i get video on this? just antenna, no input ports
just got one of these for $8, how do i get video on this? just antenna, no input ports
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broadcast to it?
>broadcast
how, what do i buy
got no idea on products. but found this, should be simple or there should be some ebay cheap board that does it. check your tv's receiving bands/frequencies
https://www.circuits-diy.com/tv-video-transmitter-circuit-vhf-uhf/
also search for "HLLY TVX-50M" on ebay, it's around 100$ but seems to do audio as well and seems like a complete solution. but don't think it's worth it for your toy
analog tv has been discontinued for a long time
you basically have a brick
this
you could go to mongolia or something, apparently they still have it
wtf I was about to mention Mongolia as well
i recently read a cool blog post about some ham autist relaying tv signals from mongolia using a cold war era russian satellite, so thats how I know
find and link pls
https://sgcderek.github.io/blog/meridian-tv.html
it was Turkmenistan not Mongolia
a few places in the US still have it
just because you can't watch live tv on it directly doesn't mean you can't generate your own compatible tv broadcast signal out of any video source
ps. technically broadcasting a signal strong enough to be picked up outside your home may be illegal in some places, though the chances of someone picking it up by accident is basically non-existent nowadays since nobody is using analog tv anymore
set up your own analog tv station, ez.
those bands were repurposed and probably bought up by the government. Be sure to do it outside of a Textron manufacturing plant.
Analogue tv has been dead for years
I guess buy a VGA to coax converter (be VERY careful that it's VGA-to-coax and not the other way around), then connect the coax to the antenna, see if that works.
literally just touch the coax to the antenna?
I literally only have the vaguest idea what I'm talking about. I just remember some TV antennas in the analog days had coaxial out you could connect to the TV.
But yeah, I guess touch the centre wire of the coax to the antenna. Be careful not to short the shielding of the coax to the centre wire.
>Be careful not to short the shielding of the coax to the centre wire
explain this in laymen's terms
those are layman's terms you moron
don't bother, OP's probably an underage gay who got this hunk of junk for 'muh aesthetics'
i am a 27 year old child thank you
who else do you think would buy this useless shit
The coax cable has two conductors in it. One down the middle, and one braided around the outside, with an insulator between them.
If you're just fricking around with the connector on the end (rather than cutting the cable and stripping it), then one conductor is connected to the pin in the middle of the connector, and one is connected to the nut that screws down.
Since the pin in the middle is not that easy to get a handle on, you might short it by touching the nut with the same conductor.
I don't think it will break your devices, but it probably won't work and you may not realize why.
what you are really talking about as your suggestion is called an RF converter. You need to convert the VGA or RCA signal to a radio frequency as if it were being transmitted over the air, so the antenna circuitry can do something with the signal. it's expecting a radio frequency, not analog or digital electronic video signals. That's how those things that let you connect video games on old TVs worked and why it has to be on channel 2 or 3.
>watchman
there also were color ones. damn
Host your own radio TV stations. Blonder tongue usually makes the big boy converters that will convert from VGA to RF. From there you can just plug a coax antenna into the RF output and it will broadcast on whatever station it comes with or that you configure yourself, tune to that on the box and you're good.
>coax
>muh coax
>coax
COAX ISN'T A VIDEO INPUT moron IT'S MERELY A TYPE OF CABLE THAT CAN BE USED FOR VARIOUS CONNECTIONS
Look, OP is a "a 27 year old child"
Talking about NTSC/PAL encoding details and shit is an exercise is futility. I don't think OP even knows what market this device originated and what encoding it's expecting to decode.
Just get the thingy with the lug you hook up cable TV coax to, since it spits out one of those signal encodings.
Maybe it works? Maybe it doesn't?
when i was a kid at one point i had a 14" tv in my room, which had only antenna input. i also later had a 4.5" b/w portable tv also with only antenna input
what i did was i had a playstation RF adapter which i wasn't really using since the other tv's in the house had composite input, so i modified that rf adapter to take any 5v input (in my case a usb cable), and broke out the composite/audio inputs to rca connectors, this way i could use any composite device on those tvs
nowadays you can get chink boxes that do the same thing without needing to hack something up
you can also get chink adapters that take hdmi and output composite
I have one of the larger ones myself. It used to work as a radio but it just broke one day and I've never bothered to try taking it apart. I expect a cap on the board popped or something.
Like other anons said you could potentially broadcast some video to it. You could probably also open it up and then just solder your own input hardware to the board and use it as little TV for...whatever.
I only keep mine because I think it'd be a shame to throw it away.