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From: brown@nic_vax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cotten Club Anti-Piracy (Or how they did it!)
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 21:54:04 EDT
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> > 
> > Now, the article did elude to the fact that someone out there will either
> > modify their decks (fiddle with the AGC, making it manual or automatic
> > with a switch), as the duplicators had to do.  They also indicated that
> 
> 
> Hey, hey,
> 
> My new RCA VKT 385 has an AGC switch on the front panel!
> 
> Maybe someone had seen the light a while back.
> 
> 
> dave

You sure that switch isn't for the tuner reception of the signal,
frequency drift, etc.  Normally it is labeled AFT (automatic fine tuning).
Check your manual to be sure.  If it really does turn of the AGC of the
video gain, you are in luck.  All you will need then is a second machine.
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