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From: hb@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Hank Bovis)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cable Remote Frequencies
Message-ID: <1031@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 89 18:58:57 GMT
References: <15939@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <850@lopez.UUCP> <645@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: hb@Virginia.EDU (Hank Bovis)
Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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In article <645@wet.UUCP> mcw@wet.UUCP (Martin Warnett) writes:
>In article <850@lopez.UUCP> flash@lopez.UUCP (Gary Bourgois) writes:
>>sean@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Nolan) writes:
>>[wants to build a [converter] remote control and save CATV charges]
>There is a potential problem here, some cable boxes will only accept
>remote control signals if told to do so by the cable company computer.
> ... My Zenith box works that way.

Zenith Z-TAC boxes do work this way, but as far as I know, most Jerrolds
don't.  I believe the poster said he had a Jerrold 460.  I'm not
familiar with that one; is that baseband or RF?

Hank Bovis
(hb@Virginia.EDU, hb@Virginia.BITNET)