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From: conger@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Edward Conger)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: cable descrambler kits/schematics
Message-ID: <6220022@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 90 01:23:29 GMT
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/ hpcupt1:sci.electronics / franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) /  8:07 am  Aug 22, 1990 /
>>Hi:
>>	I know I can buy descrambler boxes already made, but I'm interrested
>>in building my own.  Anyone know where I can get plans for such a thing?
>>If I were to buy a descrambler ready made, the one I'd need to buy is a
>>Jerrold Tri-Bi....

>>Thanks,
>>-franco

I would rather imagine that it would depend quite a bit on what scheme
your local cable co/ satellite folk are using.  As has been mentioned
earlier in this group, some of the simpler systems (such as v/h sync suppresion
video inversion, clipping and shifting aren't so bad) - I believe that
the digital scrambling systems may be worse.

Disclaimer: I have no non-theoretical knowledge of the subject.
There Big Brother -- you happy?

>>Frank A. Lonigro	     (franco@bbn.com, ...!harvard!bbn!franco)
>>Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138
>>"e, s, s, s, n, e, e, nw, get chest, se, n, d" - Sound familiar???

Ed Conger (conger@fnord.cup.hp.com)
"w,u,s,s, insert slugs, n,e,u,d" - Yes, a little. (note hostname) 
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