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Chapter 2: Connecting YourVCR
Connecting theAntenna or Cableto theVCR(cont.)
_Important:
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Connect
the fourth coaxial
cable to the "O LIT"terminal
on the
A/B switch. Connect
the other end of this cable to the "AN-
TENNA
IN" terminal
on your VCR.
When you are finished,
go to page 14, "Co:anecting
the Televi-
sion."
With this connection,
you should
set the A/B s;witch to "A" to
record a non-scrambled
channel.
You may watch the same chan-
nel or any other non-scrambled
channel
at the same time.
To record a scrambled
channel,
set the switch to "B", select your
"cable output
channel"
(usually
3 or 4) on tile VCR and select the
channel
you wish to record on the cable box. At this time your TV
will not be able to show any other channel.
With this connection,
you cannot:
• record a scrambled
channel
and watch
a non-scrambled
channel
at the same time,
• record a non-scrambled
channel
and watch
a scrambled
channel
at the same time, and
• record one scrambled
channel
and watch
a different
scrambled
channel.
Connectingotherantennas
If you don't have cable TV, you'll need to connect
a regular
an-
tenna.
Your antenna
may have one of two dift_rent
kind of ends
(called "leads") on it.
The two kinds
of leads are:
300-ohm
flat twin leads
that look like this ... :
"l.-----m
... or a 75-oh'n
round lead
that looks likE, = this:
Follow the procedures
for connecting
the kind of leads your
antenna
has, then go to page 14, "Connecting
the Television."
connecting an antenna witha 300-ohm flat twin lead
(If you have a 300-ohm
fiat twin lead, you will need to purchase
a
300-75 ohm adapter
at your local hardware
or electronics
store.)
Disconnect
the antenna
from the back of the TV.
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Before you can attach
the antenna
lead.s to the adapter,
you
need to expose a 5/8 inch segment
of each lead by scraping
off
the plastic
covering.
Sometimes
these leads have "U" shaped
clips that fit around
the screw, in which case you will not
need to peel back the plastic.
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