66Cooper

Jay

You sir have a very cool gizmo.

Does the "shirt pocket" receiver have any inputs on it?

66Cooper

No inputs at all. The only thing it has is a regular headphone jack (which doubles as its antenna). The large plug on the right of the receiver is the output that goes to the watch for video.

I thought of something, What if I clipped the end off a headphones and strip the wires and then connect something like this:

to those striped wires? Does that make any sense. I dont know how the headphones provide the video signal so not sure if it will work.

staticMHZ

that thing looks amazing

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66Cooper

Thanks. It truly is. People say in reviews that the picture is bad and whatever but just thinking about what it does, and then remembering that it did it in 1982 gives me chills. It is the coolest thing I've bought in a long while.

Now, if only i could get it to work again...

1inxs

Welcome to the DTVUSA Forum. Your best shot at getting it working is to eliminate the shirt pocket tuner and connect it to a CECB. What is the adapter end connected to the old pocket tuner? Is it an mini phone plug? I wouldn't cut anything or open and destroy the original wiring, you won't need to. Radio shack and other electronics outlets sell adapters for any configuration you could imagine. You may need to go from coaxial cable to RCA and then to mini phone plug. I would recommend a coaxial to mini phone plug. You would connect the CECB using coaxial cable. This way you would get both audio and video. Once all is working we can get you going semi mobile. What a treat
EDIT: I would recommend a coaxial to female mini phone plug

66Cooper

Wow, that is what I am taking about! I will have to get a picture up of the connection. A German site shows a guy building his own "receiver" that eliminates the tuner but it looks VERY complex to me.
Would be cool to be able to keep everything original. If I did have to hack into it, I would do it very skillfully as to not effect anything and to always be able to put it back to original.

Check this link out for what the German guy did. Has a pick of connector too.

Willkommen auf der Homepage von DG1SFJ

66Cooper

Link to cable description

Willkommen auf der Homepage von DG1SFJ

66Cooper

Oh, so the cable show is the cable that sends the video signal to the watch. The receiver gets is TV and radio signal thru the headphones which is a standard mini phone jack (like on iPod). If there is a way to use the mini phone jack to pick up any sort of modern signal, that would rule! Thanks all!

1inxs

I'll have to study the schematic a little bit to figure out what it does. By the looks of the connector it appears the pocket tuner needs to remain as part of the system. Building the converter from Willkommen auf der Homepage von DG1SFJ looks like it would be quite simple. The idea used in my original post won't work. I will look through different connectors to figure out the easiest possible way. At this point it looks like you will need a radio shack adapter to go between the headphone jack and the pocket tuner. The only part needing modification is the adapter. You will attach the two separated leads from a coaxial cable to the adapter. I'll leave you with this for now. I'll work a few things out and post back with my idea.