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Killa200
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Spring City, TN
·AT&T Southeast

Trunk Amp

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Notice the lack of a return amp? No cable modems here, fellas!
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I've been reading back and forth on the forums and front page for a while about how everyone wishes so bad that they could hurry up and get DOCSIS 3.0 service for those blazing fast internet speeds and the likes.

Just to let you know, you may have to wait a while in your area, but at least your better off than my locality. Introducing a "brand new" trunk amp that was just put in a new subdivision.... in all its 450mhz glory. Just happen to be around while the unit was unsealed and had to pry into our local CATV's reason for "no-one possibly wanting cable internet in this city"
permalink · 2009-03-25 11:21:53 · Print · Reply to this
seanb
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join:2005-12-20
West Palm Beach, FL

Re: Trunk Amp

wow... magnavox..... now there's a name that fell off the earth about 8 years ago.... i'm amazed they're still in business... especially with how ghetto that box is --- looks like it was purchased off of ebay in the "vintage tv equipment" category....

wonder if they still have an extended warranty or active support contract

ha
permalink · 2009-03-25 18:35:35 · Reply to this

Killa200
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Spring City, TN
·AT&T Southeast

Re: Trunk Amp

said by seanb See Profile :

wonder if they still have an extended warranty or active support contract
They prob have a "scrap it" warranty... as it when it breaks, scrap it and grab another bulk vintage replacement part out of the just got off ebay box,
permalink · 2009-03-25 19:52:15 · Print · Reply to this

kewlkeed
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Knowlton, QC		 That's some ol' skool shit right dere!
permalink · 2009-03-25 19:27:34 · Reply to this

cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:		 Wow that's old.

After Magnavox (which made gear up to 750 MHz), Phillips took over and made gear up to 860 MHz for a period of time, and some 1 GHz.

Then C-Cor bought them.
permalink · 2009-03-25 23:52:58 · Reply to this

NetAdmin
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join:2008-05-22

1 edit		 Like others have said, wow! I've seen some old equipment, but 450Mhz plant...



Did I say wow yet?

edit - Just noticed that the power supply for that amp was serviced in 2006. I'm surprised anyone would still mess with that equipment. Of course I know a few telcos who still run on old analog phone switches, so the fact that someone still services that amp shouldn't surprise me.
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"This is a bus. You know how big a bus is?"
permalink · 2009-03-28 00:20:12 · Print · Reply to this

alphapointe
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join:2002-02-10
Columbia, MO
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Re: Trunk Amp

said by NetAdmin See Profile :

Of course I know a few telcos who still run on old analog phone switches,
Hard to find a step-by-step switch tech these days...
permalink · 2009-03-28 01:37:54 · Reply to this
geekspeed

join:2004-11-19
Riverside, CA

Re: Trunk Amp

said by alphapointe See Profile :

said by NetAdmin See Profile :

Of course I know a few telcos who still run on old analog phone switches,
Hard to find a step-by-step switch tech these days...
Most of them have died of old age
permalink · 2009-04-03 14:57:51 · Print · Reply to this

alanhdsl
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Phoenix, AZ
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Magnavox TV
Just the thing to feed this:
permalink · 2009-04-07 17:09:13 · Reply to this

Killa200
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join:2005-12-02
Spring City, TN

Re: Trunk Amp

I'm not sure if the cable distribution system here will give me the full picture quality of that set though alanhdsl, lmao
permalink · 2009-04-07 22:29:36 · Reply to this

boethius
Boo-Yah
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Winters, CA
clubs:		 Made in the USA? Crikey, that IS old.
permalink · 2009-04-15 14:41:30 · Reply to this

cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
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Reading, PA
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»www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4
permalink · 2009-04-15 16:01:33 · Reply to this

hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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clubs:		 by the sticker it was serviced in 2006. not really too long ago.

Cool pics never saw the old school stuff looked like inside.
permalink · 2009-04-16 06:02:17 · Reply to this
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