Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!orion.bitnet!ken From: KEN@ORION.BITNET (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: HELP : Cable scrambling Message-ID: <74KEN@ORION> Date: 31 Dec 87 12:38:11 GMT References: <9756@ut-sally.UUCP> <802@neoucom.UUCP> Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology Lines: 20 >From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) >Through some fast talking, we were able to convince the clerk at >the cable company that the box lost its memory due to a summer >thunder storm. >--Bill To make it look like a bolt of lightning really hit the converter, just hook up the old spark gap generator, car ignition coil, or other sci-fi high voltage device to the antenna input. I'd recommend disconnecting the TV and power first. :-) ------- Kenneth Ng: ken@orion.bitnet Also: ken@argus.uucp, ken@njitsc1.uucp, ken@njit-eies.mailnet WISCVM.WISC.EDU is history, is your mailer still using it?