Hold on!!!
I have a use for FM analogue Sat RX's..
We use them for amateur television (a branch of Amateur Radio)
I'll take any you have and if they have manual tuning so much the
better!!
Rod Smallwood
Email rodsmallwood at
btconnect.com
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at
classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
Sent: 06 January 2007 00:01
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: not quite on topic but, classic analogue satellite tv
decoding boxes
Witchy wrote:
Hello folks,
I've got a pair of old UK SKY TV boxen (1997 era) that are pretty
useless as analogue SKY TV was switched off in 2001; can the hardware
be used for anything else or is it pretty much paperweight material?
Paperweight, I would have thought - I've never heard of them being able
to do anything 'clever' (unlike, say, some of Acorn's set top boxes
which do resemble a computer closely enough to fire up a web browser on,
talk to a few very specific hardware add-ons etc.).
I doubt there's even many useful components that can be salvaged as
it'll likely all be surface mount stuff and big shiny screened silver
boxes inside.
cheers
Jules