Ping Retirednoguilt Follow-up on TV repair, for friend who lives in the st icks

[micky]

Success.

Retirednoguilt was kind enough to post Power supply on ebay shows a fuse in the photo :

that looks just like her power supply.

I think there might have been one other for sale somewhere in the world, but this one was in Baltimore**.

As I mentioned maybe 8 or 9 weeks ago, even though I'm in Greece, the ebay product above was for sale in Baltimore, where I'm from, and where my friend in the sticks used to live until 3 years ago.

**And she had a 70-year-old girlfriend coming to visit the woman's kid and grandkids, and visit my friend too.

So she asked her to pick up the board in person, to make sure she had it when she flew over. We met her in Athens, had a nice visit with everyone (I didn't know them before) and then my friend and I went up to the hills/mountains

I put the board in and the TV works perfectly.

Not only are there not many OTA tv signals here, but because of her location, there are probably none. I used a piece of wire about 6" long, which would be enough in a city. I'm looking for a longer piece, but she wasn't upset that she'll have to buy cable. When she gets back from Baltimroe in a month or two, she's going to do that.

[hubops]

I set up an elderly friend in a nursing home with one of these - - with an extender - and it worked pretty good. Just propped up on his window sill.

John T.

[micky]

We asked her neighbor if there was over the air tv and he said, There is, but no one uses it. I'm not sure if he was saying it was possible where they live, but maybe I can find more people to ask, maybe one will show me an antenna. Otherwise, I've done enough.

I don't know how much money she has.

She's back in the US now in order to sell the apartment she bought for her son 15 years ago. He lived in it until the first kid was born and she's been renting it. And she owned her own home until 2 years ago but that was probably only worth 200,000. And I know moving here cost a lot. She's renting, can't afford to buy, can't afford even to rent in Athens I guess.

If I get anything at all with a plain wire, I'd be willing to buy her what you suggest. I generally find something like this, wire, when I look. If I find something, I'll go to her place while she's away and see if it helps.

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[micky]

I talked to someone whose parents live not too far away (although my friend lives higher in the hills, farther from any signal), and he thought there was an OTA signal, but then he had doubts that they might have changed it. He said he'd check for me

[hubops]

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My elderly friend was in an urban care home in southern Ontario < Brantford >

where OTA was certainly available - in ~ 2016 ish. ... OTA might have gone Dodo since then .. He would get 3 channels but needed to slightly rotate/reposition the antenna for best signal. Even though he only lived a year or so in there - I think he appreciated the ball games & hockey games & news. The home's cable rates were stupid-high and the TV in the shared lounge area was always NFG .. Good luck. John T.

[Clare Snyder]

Here in kitchener if you have a digital compatible tuner (atsc) on the TV you can get 2 or 3 ITA stations - mabee a few more with a rotator on a digital specific antenna

In KW, TVO, Global, and CTV are local and can be picked up by any old piece of wire. The local VHF channels (Global and CTV) are so strong it doesn?t really matter whats used. Stations from Toronto (CBC, french CBC, CityTV, Omni 1 and 2) are UHF, so in KW, you can get most of the channels via a UHF only antenna pointed at Toronto. Depending on how high your house is, you may be able to get away with a small antenna on a wall