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Old 10-09-2025, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
The Zenith converter box is ok on most brands of TV. Zenith TVs with the buzzomatic 6BN6 audio detector will buzz with any signal source they're not aligned to*.
Granted I mostly use my DTV converters AV jacks instead of RF to feed Blonder Tongues that then wirelessly transmit RF on any channel I want throughout my house.

*A few years ago I noticed an interesting thing with Zenith 6BN6 audio detectors...I had a video only vacuum tube RF modulator from the 50s, and a built an audio stage for it with a single tube 4.5 MHz FM osc/modulator that I could mix into the composite signal in the unit. That osc could be tuned for an offset not exactly 4.5MHz. I found on one of my buzzier Zenith's that if I tuned the RF carrier of that modulator I could completely null the buzz and get clean audio. This proves that IF alignment matters with the 6BN6.
The fact that you could null it out with just a fequency tweak seems to point to a single frequency adjustment in the Zenith that would potentially have the same effect. I wonder...
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