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Sure it actually requires a signal?


All the video equipment I have actually needs a signal.

I remember an article about a guy that made a ham band recorder out of a vcr. The vcr records a 6mhz wide signal, so he just built a mixer to convert the band he was interested in (80 meters, I think it was) to the range the vcr was expecting, but he also had to build a sync generator to get the vcr to operate. He used this setup to record 6mhz of a radio band for later listening, just hooked the vcr video output to a tuner.

I thought this a very weird concept when I first read of it.

I still think it's weird.