Electronics Forum / Repair / May 2004

I'm looking for a source of replacement rod antennas. The kind that might
be found on a "boom box". The exact antenna has
9 sections
54" extended

Have hooked up the SLV 595HF thru Line Out to In of TV with no other
connections. This works perfectly for Playbacks. Is this hookup OK for
recordings? The VCR displays recording but nothing records.
Do I need to hook something else up - thru Line IN.

I have some trouble with a Blaupunkt RTV-936EN VCR, which has a K-mech.
It sometimes plays well, but then suddenly it starts to make tape
noises, the backtension arm flutters, and switches off. If I switch on
again the tape is difficult to eject. I have cleaned away some lint and

Whats a LOPT ? Line OutPut Transformer ???
Thanks

I have a 9" Zenith television that has recently started to behave in an
unusual manner.  Over approximately a one second time interval, both the
sound and the picture oscillate between being normal and having an extensive
amount of interference.  The set is about 15 years old and ...

On my Technics SA-DA8 receiver, the cooling fan was not going on and the
receiver was getting very hot. I checked the fan, it was ok (it would run
with a 12v adapter) but wouldn't turn on when connected to the circuit
board. After a few weeks of this the SA-DA8 started shutting ...

This Mitsubishi CS-2655R tv came into the shop with a blurry picture and not
much else wrong. I touched up the focus control and the picture is crystal
clear except for some slight vertical jitter. I replaced all the C400 series
electrolytic caps and the vertical output IC, AN5521. ...