I'll try anything once if it's reasonable. I can work my DVR pretty well
even.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Digital to analog TV converter boxes
> 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!
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> 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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>> >7:27 PM
>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
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