[HomeBrew] A method for wireless CATV

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/1/04 10:42:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
serndipity at hotmail.com writes:


> Wanting to watch CATV on the screened in back porch (where running a cable 
> extension line would have been very difficult)...I  connected the cable box 
> output to a 3  stage class A amplifier chain (e.g. 2N5179 / 2N5179 / 2N5109 
> I built w/ muliiple feedback at about 25 dB gain per stage) and the output 
> to a channel 3 (i.e. 62MHz) dipole. Then w/ a TV set on the porch tuned to 
> channel 3...I was able to receive wireless CATV.

By 'broadcasting' channel 3...

> 
> Not knowing the output level from the cable box.....I was lucky and obtained 
> 
> about a 100' wireless  range.

The cable folks may not be really happy with that. They go to great lengths 
to keep the signal from leaking out - FCC requires it.

What you essentially have is an unlicensed channel 3 transmitter...

> 
> Looking for any additional ideas on how I might refine this idea further. 
> For example, on further thought....I assume that the cable box output is FM 
> 

It's not FM. It's a plain NTSC TV signal. Your TV could not decode an FM 
video signal.

73 de Jim, N2EY