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From: harrist@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Harris)
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Subject: Re: Radio Electronics Descrambler
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Date: 18 Dec 90 22:49:50 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.184710.28481@csn.org> tomf@boulder.Colorado.EDU writes:
>
>Has anyone out there built the Signal Descrambler from May of 1990's
>Radio Electronics?  If so how well did it work?  This may have been

	Funny you should ask.  I just got mine put together last night
	and am having a few minor problems.  At first it didn't work at all.
	the signal was jumping around all over the place because it
	wasn't phaze locking(this is what my brother said anyway, he's
	the one who really knows what he's doing).  My brother poked
	around the board with his finger and BAM, it locked up and was
	working pretty good but unfortunately when you unplug it you have
	to poke at it again to jump start it.  At that point we took it
	off the vidio scope and took it home and hooked it up to a tv
	set.  Since it works on baseband video we hooked it to the back of
	the vcr and then into the video port of the tv.  It worked pretty
	good on the unscrambled stations but the vcr's rf modulator seemed
	to have problems with signals that were already missing a sync
	pulse so the picture was completely missing the color and rolled
	horizontally a bit.  I'll probaly tinker with it a little more
	tonight.
	Has anyone else had similar problems or just have any suggestions?

	Tim H.