You could do it on my DVD player, for sure. Sometimes getting in to a DVD
isn't easy with it, but once I'm there, I can get through anything.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
> Hi.
>
> I managed to switch episodes on this DVD player just once, but it was so
> accidental that I've never been able to repeat it.
>
> --Lou K2LKK
>
> At 09:46 PM 3/10/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi Bob and the group. I would also encourage people to challenge the
>>equipment that is hard to use. I managed to use a spectrum analyzer that
>>used a cursor, and with very little audible feedback. The key you ask?
>>consintrate, Consintrate, Consintrate!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Bob Tinney wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Lou,
>> > I share your frustration with the lack of accessibility to set top
>> boxes and
>> > the like, but I am not letting this inaccessible world shut me out! I
>> > have
>> > used receivers and transmitters that didn't talk, cell phones that
>> > didn't
>> > have voice synthesizers in them and I used to tune up my old DX 100 by
>> > listening to the transformer hum and I used to set the drive by
>> listening to
>> > the time it took for the meter needle to return to the 0 stop. But I'm
>> > not
>> > going to give up on any communication mode because of ignorance. That
>> > also
>> > includes digital ssb which I think sounds terrible, but I'm hoping that
>> > it
>> > will get better with time.
>> > I'm going to keep accessing the difficult because it is a challenge!
>> > Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> > Skype name: bobtinn
>> > Live Long and Prosper!
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:20 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > With the fiasco that I've had with DVDs and accessibility, I've pretty
>> > well
>> > decided to cease to receive television signals when analog goes dark.
>> > I'm
>> > sick of wasting money on things that the industry decides will be
>> > obsolete
>> > long before it wears out, and I detest of filling landfills just so
>> > someone
>> > can make a heap of money.
>> >
>> > They can stick their DTV.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 11:37 PM 3/9/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>> > >You have to use it within 90 days but the catch is they're only going
>> > >to
>> > >issue
>> > >something like 30 million of them so if you wait too long you won't
>> > >get
>> > >one but
>> > >if you buy now it may be nearly a year before you can use the box and
>> > >it
>> > >surely
>> > >may have developed problems by then. Its never for electronics to
>> > >sit.
>> > >
>> > >Last I heard they'd already issued about a third of the coupons they
>> intend
>> > >to
>> > >give out.
>> > >
>> > >Tom
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> > >web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>> > >
>> > >On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Butch Bussen wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:19:46 -0700
>> > > > From: Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > > Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators
>> > > > <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > > > Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
>> > > >
>> > > > I think you have to use the coupon within 30 days, I do know there
>> > > > is a
>> > > > time limit, so don't apply until you're ready to buy.
>> > > > 73s
>> > > > Butch Bussen
>> > > > wa0vjr
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008,
>> > > > Bob Tinney wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Hi,
>> > > > > I've been putting off getting a converter box, but the discussion
>> > > > > on
>> > > > > this
>> > > > > list reminded me to apply for 2 coupons as my audio tv receivers
>> > > > > are
>> > > analog
>> > > > > and are not hooked to cable. Just google "digital converter box
>> > > coupon" and
>> > > > > fill out the form.
>> > > > > 73
>> > > > > Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> > > > > Skype name: bobtinn
>> > > > > Live Long and Prosper!
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >--
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>> > >Checked by AVG.
>> > >Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1324 - Release Date:
>> > >3/10/2008
>> > >7:27 PM
>> >
>> > Louis Kim Kline
>> > A.R.S. K2LKK
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>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>7:27 PM
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
> Home e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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