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Tony Z

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Question: When cable broadcasts all become digital, what happens to the signal to those of us (ME) who has his Pioneer TX9500 tuner hooked up to cable for the signal? I'm in an area void of decent FM stations that can be picked up via an antenna (at least as far as my poor knowledge of antennas goes). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

T.Z.
 
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I'm not sure about that, but I can share this:

I used to have a tuner hooked up to cable to receive radio stations, and about a year and a half later, a surge went through cable, into my tuner rendering my tuner useless. Luckily, it was on BPC I had in the garage for tunes. FWIW. Not saying it will, just saying it did once.
 
Interesting, did the surge do anything to your TVs? In october 2007, I had a similar occurrence (DuBois, in Western PA), but lost a TV.

I'm afaid my old tuner, after 30 plus years will finally be retired:tears:.

T.Z.
 
Tony Z said:
Question: When cable broadcasts all become digital, what happens to the signal to those of us (ME) who has his Pioneer TX9500 tuner hooked up to cable for the signal? I'm in an area void of decent FM stations that can be picked up via an antenna (at least as far as my poor knowledge of antennas goes). Any suggestions?

Thanks!

T.Z.
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When are they going all-digital? That's only off-air TV, at the moment. It'll likely be decades before they stick a fork in radio, because it occupies such a small area of the radio spectrum. Cable will still send RF modulated signal. If you want to keep your tuner from being zapped, get a DC blocking adapter.
 
Thanks HF!

I hooked up my cable, but I'm not getting signals like I once did (years ago!). Don't have time tonight to moneky around, but will tomorrow.

T.Z.
 
The digital transmission is about over-the-air, no reason it should change what your cable company puts on the line. A lot of cable companies have dropped FM signals, though. No loss for me, since cable FM has always sounded like crap here.
 
Rich/Centrally located in PA,

I suspect that Cmcast may have dropped FM signals, particularly since they have started broadcasting their own perverted sense of music. I shall contact Comcast to determine if this is so, and will post the results of my inquest!

T.Z.
 
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