Date   : Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:56 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Morley Teletext Adapter

In article <d8834d20906070809o48afd079xb8e2b870c5948802@...>,
Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> writes

>But I never got the tuning indicator to show any signal at all - maybe
>because I didn't have any aerial and I was using a long piece of wire
>stuffed into the centre pin and trailed over to the window.

That'll never work with the Acorn unit.  It needs a good strong signal.

> I thought
>it ought to have had some kind of signal showing, but now I've read
>this I'm wondering if it might actually work if I used a proper roof
>aerial.

It probably will, unless any of the tants you removed were used in the
tuning cctry instead of PSU decoupling.

I also seem to remember that tuners need a 30v stabilised voltage to
work; don't know how it is generated in the Acorn unit (if at all) but
again, if you've removed the wrong tant, it might cause loss of tuning.

Finally, you need to turn the tuning knobs very, very slowly.

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