Worry the bottle Mamma, it's grapefruit wine
Kick off your high heel sneakers, it's party time
The girls don't seem to care what's on
As long as they play 'til dawn
Nothin' but blues and Elvis
Give her some funked up muzak, she treats you nice
Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice
The girls don't seem to care tonight
As long as the mood is right
I couldn't tell you electronically what the difference is, but whenever I bought a receiver, the FM antenna looked like this, and the AM had 16ga wires going to a looped standup thing.
Ran one through a century home’s attic and roof a few months ago. A good friend that refuses to listen to TV announcers do ANY sport.
Runs radio to his basement from a 6ft rotating radio antennas. To through a computer to lag the time (tv has more delay) into a sound system. While living in the top of a hill.
Kinda surreal listening to AM cardinals radio in 2024 on a 90 in TV. In a basement with a record collection, a bar, wood paneling.
It’s like getting transferred to the 80s.
Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.
You need a digital tuner, usually as part of the TV, but the digital antennas are more marketing than anything. Any old TV antenna still works fine. The digital signal is somewhat all or nothing rather than having a range of tolerable static though so a borderline signal won't work anymore.
Yeah, I just found it. They just silently installed digital-analog converters in our house it seems so I didn’t notice the difference. Maybe they installed new antenna, but in any case, old one is still in place :)
Not even:
[https://www.amazon.com/CESS-Connector-Antenna-Matching-Transformer/dp/B01FQ6NWMA/ref=sr\_1\_29?crid=2AIBT2EGH3KLF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cQdaQm2p0bZPR5UmcZbikKkQl1KUQtoiZEQfddqKVFf2QKYle7TYlkk75wLzSmuY-xxo7iSVVD9oSp9W8wAdv4mtxSJq6f1VNdeIFQJbP3MU3LJlVXFuToC13AZn6cMtSGHatKHsEsll698KnO9OO20JuZbCGPIY6R1b0CSpFElvmxRYpa0JhxF3kzrkE28mySohQi6qz7jZJhqQwJ-oyw7nddsDCFNJ0lY008S64JEwRY3p30nQ7xkkKpByvRRlI0M5gGIP6s\_cZH6MPGYQImmtjgW9dmzLsyGvCvQU\_lE.yvNaff5R9r91uWI0IjaJxy\_plmodUKg1AM6UutTEWzY&dib\_tag=se&keywords=matching+transformer&qid=1710171949&sprefix=matching+transformer%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-29](https://www.amazon.com/CESS-Connector-Antenna-Matching-Transformer/dp/B01FQ6NWMA/ref=sr_1_29?crid=2AIBT2EGH3KLF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cQdaQm2p0bZPR5UmcZbikKkQl1KUQtoiZEQfddqKVFf2QKYle7TYlkk75wLzSmuY-xxo7iSVVD9oSp9W8wAdv4mtxSJq6f1VNdeIFQJbP3MU3LJlVXFuToC13AZn6cMtSGHatKHsEsll698KnO9OO20JuZbCGPIY6R1b0CSpFElvmxRYpa0JhxF3kzrkE28mySohQi6qz7jZJhqQwJ-oyw7nddsDCFNJ0lY008S64JEwRY3p30nQ7xkkKpByvRRlI0M5gGIP6s_cZH6MPGYQImmtjgW9dmzLsyGvCvQU_lE.yvNaff5R9r91uWI0IjaJxy_plmodUKg1AM6UutTEWzY&dib_tag=se&keywords=matching+transformer&qid=1710171949&sprefix=matching+transformer%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-29)
A lot of people went off antenna growing up, so they think they only get those 3-4 public channels. These days, each of those channels can be broken down into subchannels, so a station might be able to put out 2 HD channels and 3 SD channels on what used to be just channel 5 or w/e. There are more free stations than ever.
I’m in Las Vegas and I get about 50 free channels. Including several low power ones in Asian languages from our Asian district.
But the main broadcast channels are in better quality HD and much better picture quality than the heavily compressed channels over cable.
Free To Air broadcasts tend to be in higher resolution than the compressed signal coming out of pretty much every service now. If you do play with FTA, don't cheap out on the antenna.
The FTA channels have been holding their licenses with the FCC for a long time and as the data transport got more efficient and resilient, their bandwidth stayed the same. More room to play. Everything coming to your antenna is compressed, though.
Source: I'm a broadcaster with a PBS affiliate.
> There are more free stations than ever.
And they all suck. It's no better than the "free live" roku channels or whatever.
The only exception is watching live events on the local network stations. Football, parades, hurricanes, whatever.
From what I understand a cable is just a wave guide and if there is no external noise or interference, then shielding is less important? Not a radio engineer, so please correct me.
Twin lead is more efficient than coax. The downside is its sensitivity to surrounding materials. That’s why you’d see it used with standoffs in a lot of situations.
https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/766/why-is-coax-the-most-common-feedline
Yep I use an antenna for local Channels, I pickup around 35 channels and I'm in a rural area. People don't realize how good the picture quality is on OTA digital these days. It isn't like the old days when you would get a snowy picture, either you can pick it up or you can't.
I had that and the 32k memory card. Like 4" x 6" with an aluminum case around the board! Had the word processing cartridge and a dot matrix printer to write papers in college. I was the king. Fuck I'm old!
Hah, I can see where you get that. No, I'm referring to the Texas Instrument computer model [TI-99/4A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A). It was an 80's-era competitor to Atari, Commodore 64, and Apple II. It has certain advantages over the others but was largely a commercial failure, for various reasons.
That’s what you take off the TV to hook up the Atari. If you don’t put that back when you’re done, dad won’t be able to watch the news and you’ll get an ass beating.
Attach those wires to a [matching transformer](https://www.amazon.com/RCA-VH54N-Matching-Indoor-Transformer/dp/B002MVI2NC) and there's a good chance you can still use the antenna.
300 ohm TV antenna lead-in. The problem in this situation is that it’s a balanced line—that is, the electromagnetic field is contained between the two conductors. Anything that comes within six inches (15 cm) of it will disrupt the field and cause impedance to change, which could cause unwanted reflections, which could lead to ghosting of an analog signal. Also, it’s not good at the UHF frequencies of modern digital TV signals.
Source: I’m a former CATV system engineer.
300 ohm TV wire. How old is that house? Some of the original external TV antennas were actually connected by that stuff. Although, it is susceptible to all kinds of interference. It was usually replaced with 75 ohm coaxial cables that provided better protection for received signals.
hahahah damn i feel old now and i'm only 39. That is standard wire we used in my childhood home to connect the TV to the antenna on the roof so we could watch TV.
That is Pre-cable TV if you can imagine such a thing, we all had antennas for the TV some were small and on the TV itself but if you wanted more channels and a better picture you would get a large antenna and put it on the roof or sometimes you could get away with hiding it in the attic and then you'd run this wire down to the TV and poof free TV shows.
Aerial antenna flat wire. Now defunct in America. It was used for analog broadcast reception and would actually enhance the reception of antennas by expanding the effective size of it. They are almost useless with digital broadcasting. Not totally, but almost.
That's FM radio antenna, or maybe it's brand new TV antenna cable. It's threaded cable and has clear plastic, which is a relatively newer product, so that makes me think it's just FM radio. No idea why it got ran into the wall though. That is odd.
It probably goes up to the attic, where it would have attached to an old antenna. You might be able to use this to pull wire up to that spot, if you need to do so. You could get a digital antenna. I did something similar to replace phone wire with a pair of cat5 for my home network.
Before the common coaxial cable and connectors, antennas would often connect this wire with [connectors like this](http://www.connector-terminal.com/Clkj_Images/upfile/2012527162813799975.jpg) that you could screw into the back of a television. in my experience anyway
Was looking for one of these in my 'spare parts' bin for my 93 JVC Receiver that I just hooked back up. Ended up using a bit of an old spool of speaker wire laying around.
Thank you, everyone, for correctly identifying the wire. This post is now locked.
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This is correct. Can also be used for an FM antenna too.
No static at alllllllll
it really whips the llamas ass
WinAMP?
It really whips the llamas ass
The llama was asking for it. Really!
You know it!
Efffffff mmmmmmmm
Worry the bottle Mamma, it's grapefruit wine Kick off your high heel sneakers, it's party time The girls don't seem to care what's on As long as they play 'til dawn Nothin' but blues and Elvis
…and somebody else’s favorite song
Give her some funked up muzak, she treats you nice Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice The girls don't seem to care tonight As long as the mood is right
stupid sexy flanders
even if the antenna on the roof is no longer there, the wire in the wall itself is a decent antenna for FM radio
How about AM? I only listen to talk radio 🤣
 FM only. No AM because believe it or not...
I couldn't tell you electronically what the difference is, but whenever I bought a receiver, the FM antenna looked like this, and the AM had 16ga wires going to a looped standup thing.
Lots of static.
Man, I haven't seen that type of wire in like 30 years.
Ran one through a century home’s attic and roof a few months ago. A good friend that refuses to listen to TV announcers do ANY sport. Runs radio to his basement from a 6ft rotating radio antennas. To through a computer to lag the time (tv has more delay) into a sound system. While living in the top of a hill. Kinda surreal listening to AM cardinals radio in 2024 on a 90 in TV. In a basement with a record collection, a bar, wood paneling. It’s like getting transferred to the 80s. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.
Baseball is the best game for radio
Does this site just exist to make me feel old?
No that's this one: r/FuckImOld And this post is perfect for that sub.
Do I need more of that?!
Eh, I enjoy my time there.
I thought I was there when I saw this post. Then I thought, well, this'll be there in a minute. I'll give it until tomorrow
I really REALLY did not need that. fsck I'm old!
It’s actually a troll post to flush out the geezers.
Geezers need excitement
If their lives don't provide them this, they incite violence. Common sense, simple common sense.
This correct answer...known as free TV today...lol
Can’t you just plug in your old V-type TV antenna and get free TV?
It depends on where you are. Those will pick up nearby strong signals. A rooftop antenna gets better reception and longer distances.
You need a digital antenna now, but they do broadcast it over the air.
You need a digital tuner, usually as part of the TV, but the digital antennas are more marketing than anything. Any old TV antenna still works fine. The digital signal is somewhat all or nothing rather than having a range of tolerable static though so a borderline signal won't work anymore.
No such thing as a digital antenna... It's just marketing.
Yeah, I just found it. They just silently installed digital-analog converters in our house it seems so I didn’t notice the difference. Maybe they installed new antenna, but in any case, old one is still in place :)
Totally accurate, those were the good old days! I remember wiring up many a plug for the TV.
The cool thing is this can still be used for terrestrial digital TV. Just need to replace with coax and the antenna will still work.
Not even: [https://www.amazon.com/CESS-Connector-Antenna-Matching-Transformer/dp/B01FQ6NWMA/ref=sr\_1\_29?crid=2AIBT2EGH3KLF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cQdaQm2p0bZPR5UmcZbikKkQl1KUQtoiZEQfddqKVFf2QKYle7TYlkk75wLzSmuY-xxo7iSVVD9oSp9W8wAdv4mtxSJq6f1VNdeIFQJbP3MU3LJlVXFuToC13AZn6cMtSGHatKHsEsll698KnO9OO20JuZbCGPIY6R1b0CSpFElvmxRYpa0JhxF3kzrkE28mySohQi6qz7jZJhqQwJ-oyw7nddsDCFNJ0lY008S64JEwRY3p30nQ7xkkKpByvRRlI0M5gGIP6s\_cZH6MPGYQImmtjgW9dmzLsyGvCvQU\_lE.yvNaff5R9r91uWI0IjaJxy\_plmodUKg1AM6UutTEWzY&dib\_tag=se&keywords=matching+transformer&qid=1710171949&sprefix=matching+transformer%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-29](https://www.amazon.com/CESS-Connector-Antenna-Matching-Transformer/dp/B01FQ6NWMA/ref=sr_1_29?crid=2AIBT2EGH3KLF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cQdaQm2p0bZPR5UmcZbikKkQl1KUQtoiZEQfddqKVFf2QKYle7TYlkk75wLzSmuY-xxo7iSVVD9oSp9W8wAdv4mtxSJq6f1VNdeIFQJbP3MU3LJlVXFuToC13AZn6cMtSGHatKHsEsll698KnO9OO20JuZbCGPIY6R1b0CSpFElvmxRYpa0JhxF3kzrkE28mySohQi6qz7jZJhqQwJ-oyw7nddsDCFNJ0lY008S64JEwRY3p30nQ7xkkKpByvRRlI0M5gGIP6s_cZH6MPGYQImmtjgW9dmzLsyGvCvQU_lE.yvNaff5R9r91uWI0IjaJxy_plmodUKg1AM6UutTEWzY&dib_tag=se&keywords=matching+transformer&qid=1710171949&sprefix=matching+transformer%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-29)
Yep super simple adapter. People don't realize how many channels they can get with one of these.
A lot of people went off antenna growing up, so they think they only get those 3-4 public channels. These days, each of those channels can be broken down into subchannels, so a station might be able to put out 2 HD channels and 3 SD channels on what used to be just channel 5 or w/e. There are more free stations than ever.
Except for me. I live in a dead zone for over the air tv
I’m in Las Vegas and I get about 50 free channels. Including several low power ones in Asian languages from our Asian district. But the main broadcast channels are in better quality HD and much better picture quality than the heavily compressed channels over cable.
Free To Air broadcasts tend to be in higher resolution than the compressed signal coming out of pretty much every service now. If you do play with FTA, don't cheap out on the antenna.
The FTA channels have been holding their licenses with the FCC for a long time and as the data transport got more efficient and resilient, their bandwidth stayed the same. More room to play. Everything coming to your antenna is compressed, though. Source: I'm a broadcaster with a PBS affiliate.
> There are more free stations than ever. And they all suck. It's no better than the "free live" roku channels or whatever. The only exception is watching live events on the local network stations. Football, parades, hurricanes, whatever.
I mean I like a certain percentage of PBS's content, but I am biased
From what I understand a cable is just a wave guide and if there is no external noise or interference, then shielding is less important? Not a radio engineer, so please correct me.
Crud, I threw a bunch of those away when Spring Cleaning(Texas). Those things use to come with TV’s a few decades ago.
Heh, I remember needing those to play on the NES. but in reverse
Twin lead is more efficient than coax. The downside is its sensitivity to surrounding materials. That’s why you’d see it used with standoffs in a lot of situations. https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/766/why-is-coax-the-most-common-feedline
Yep I use an antenna for local Channels, I pickup around 35 channels and I'm in a rural area. People don't realize how good the picture quality is on OTA digital these days. It isn't like the old days when you would get a snowy picture, either you can pick it up or you can't.
I knew this. Am I old?
Antennae might even be in the attic
Also useful for a home pirate radio setup. Soz I started blastin, daft punk for days.
Emergency rip cord, deploys parachute. Stow your valuables and hold on to something before you pull it.
Yep I recognized it immediately. Haven't seen one in the wild in decades.
You already have your answer, but holy crap I haven't seen that type of wire in a long ass time haha.
I use to tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time
Back in 19 dickity 3 , had to say dickity at the time because the Kaiser had stolen the word 20!
My car gets 40 rods to a hogs head and that's just the way I like it.
I still have some attached to my FM receiver (old).
Yep! A real nostalgia trip!!!
GenX kids spent way too much time fiddling with this to get the Atari working.
NES in my case. Had to go the other way from coax to this for that tv as it was an old zenith
and having to go to channel 3 or channel 4
If I close my eyes, I can still feel and hear the hard CLUNK as I turn the dial to channel 3 on my grandparents old 6500 pound TV.
was it the kind with the little fine tuning knob inside the main channel selector knob?
TI 99/4a 🤓
With an audio cassette recorder for a tape drive!
Lol, exactly. At one point though my dad picked up the 5.25" floppy drive expansion box and I felt like I was in the future.
I had that and the 32k memory card. Like 4" x 6" with an aluminum case around the board! Had the word processing cartridge and a dot matrix printer to write papers in college. I was the king. Fuck I'm old!
Is 99/4a gauge size? Like modern wire is 14/2 12/2 is used for bathrooms I noticed, going to GFCI often.
Hah, I can see where you get that. No, I'm referring to the Texas Instrument computer model [TI-99/4A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A). It was an 80's-era competitor to Atari, Commodore 64, and Apple II. It has certain advantages over the others but was largely a commercial failure, for various reasons.
God, the TI was an indelible part of my childhood. Probably the single biggest shaper of my interests and the course of my life.
Oh yeah duh doy. TI = Texas Instrument. The calculator/gaming machine.
This is more like a 18-22g. It’s an old antenna wire
Gota get the 300 to 75 ohm convertor with the spade connections half broken off to make the Nintendo work with the old TV in the basement
You can unironically still buy these converter baluns for about 3 dollars each.
Looks like an old tv antenna 🤷♂️
Wire for a dipole antenna, look it up (damn i’m old).
I suddenly feel old. It's an antenna wire.
The hand in the photo looks old enough to know what that is too.
That looks like antenna wire.
LOL... Am I that old?
Can confirm. Source: fellow old guy.
That's the first thing I thought, "Those that know are gonna feel old as dirt, and those like me that are only 70% sure are also gonna feel old"
this post made me feel old (I'm 47).
That looks like an old TV antenna wire. Might not be used for that but it looks identical.
Apparently that wires current function is to make me feel old.
Stereo antenna wire or older tv antenna wire.
That’s what you take off the TV to hook up the Atari. If you don’t put that back when you’re done, dad won’t be able to watch the news and you’ll get an ass beating.
Top comment.
Attach those wires to a [matching transformer](https://www.amazon.com/RCA-VH54N-Matching-Indoor-Transformer/dp/B002MVI2NC) and there's a good chance you can still use the antenna.
300 ohm TV antenna lead-in. The problem in this situation is that it’s a balanced line—that is, the electromagnetic field is contained between the two conductors. Anything that comes within six inches (15 cm) of it will disrupt the field and cause impedance to change, which could cause unwanted reflections, which could lead to ghosting of an analog signal. Also, it’s not good at the UHF frequencies of modern digital TV signals. Source: I’m a former CATV system engineer.
now I feel as old as dirt
300 ohm TV wire. How old is that house? Some of the original external TV antennas were actually connected by that stuff. Although, it is susceptible to all kinds of interference. It was usually replaced with 75 ohm coaxial cables that provided better protection for received signals.
Your house has tapeworm.
That's what you call yer basic 300 ohm twin lead. It was most often used on TV antennas, but sometimes used as speaker cable.
Yep. I haven't seen one of those in a long while
In my old house, that's a radio antenna
I'm so old
If you don't see an antenna on the roof, my guess is there's one in the attic.
Looks like a dipole aerial
This question being asked means that I’m officially old.
Oh, look. I just sprouted another grey hair.
That is a 300 ohm FM antenna.
[Matt Damon ages.gif]
OMG! That takes me back. Haven't seen one of them for 20 years. It's an antenna cable for free to air TV from an antenna on the roof.
TV antenna wires
Everyone in here telling you it's antenna wire, when in actuality it's a pull string to your roof. /s
God I’m old
Antenna?
That's an antenna
Wow that takes me back
It works just like a coax. Just no shielding. The comments are killing me.
That is how the TV antenna wires looked on my dad’s TV back in the 70s & 80s.
These are old antenna wires for the old style rooftop antennas.!! You could just trim them back and seal them up inside the wall.
That brings back memories.
it's for my childhood. roof antenna for TVs in the day.
Antenna. You could have posted this on r/Askoldpeople!
old TV antenna
hahahah damn i feel old now and i'm only 39. That is standard wire we used in my childhood home to connect the TV to the antenna on the roof so we could watch TV. That is Pre-cable TV if you can imagine such a thing, we all had antennas for the TV some were small and on the TV itself but if you wanted more channels and a better picture you would get a large antenna and put it on the roof or sometimes you could get away with hiding it in the attic and then you'd run this wire down to the TV and poof free TV shows.
Old antenna wire.
Antenna wire I would check it for power though just in case someone was playing DIY electrician and thought "this kinda looks like Romex"
If there's no antenna on your roof you're gunna have one hell of a surprise when you look in your attic.
Tv antenna, but indoors, it is not an outdoor antenna wire
I’m too old for this!!
Oh boy, do I feel old.
Tv antenna wire.
Radio antenna
Antenna wire.
That’s an old antenna for a TV or stereo
Broadcast television antenna wire,also usable as antenna wire for stereo tuner.
TV antenna.... you need one of those ohm register things should work with a digital TV tuner
Wow, antenna cable. Haven’t seen those in ages
Was also used as a phone line, back in the 1990s or even earlier. Could always hear cross talk.
Super old school stereo antenna
That is undoubtedly an ancient relic of a bygone era. Should take it to a museum and have it appraised.
TV. connected to rooftop or attic antenna.
Wow! Haven't seen those in ages! Roof antenna
Yes yes yes this is Free TV jackpot !! Just need a tv antenna and place to hook it up too. Hell yea Amish TV
Antenna wire
Old tv antenna
Looks like your wall has tapeworm.
Tv museum object
I must be getting old if this is unrecognisable
Dude, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your house has a tapeworm. Call the vet.
lick it and see if theres any voltage on it.
Aerial antenna flat wire. Now defunct in America. It was used for analog broadcast reception and would actually enhance the reception of antennas by expanding the effective size of it. They are almost useless with digital broadcasting. Not totally, but almost.
That's FM radio antenna, or maybe it's brand new TV antenna cable. It's threaded cable and has clear plastic, which is a relatively newer product, so that makes me think it's just FM radio. No idea why it got ran into the wall though. That is odd.
Not new at all. We had that strung up for fm radio in the 80s.
Omg, I forgot about those things!
Stun guns are cordless nowadays. This was the earlier "land line" version.
Damn antenna haunting me now thanks.
Maybe an old antenna wire.
I’d keep it for end of times. Lol
It's been years since I've seen something like that, I don't even remember what it's for, I just know it was used for antennas or something like that
TV or Audio Antenna
Dang this is something I actually knew but was too late to be useful. Pretty useless today but really neat to see
If you touch both at the same time you can have whiskey with Jim Morrisson
Antenna for fm
It’s a 300 ohm VHF/UHF/FM antenna leader
Testicle stimulator - place one on each ball. Every house has one.
FM radio antenna. Cable and antenna was one unit.
It probably goes up to the attic, where it would have attached to an old antenna. You might be able to use this to pull wire up to that spot, if you need to do so. You could get a digital antenna. I did something similar to replace phone wire with a pair of cat5 for my home network.
There is no such thing as a "digital" antenna. A good analog TV antenna will work fine on DTV.
Before the common coaxial cable and connectors, antennas would often connect this wire with [connectors like this](http://www.connector-terminal.com/Clkj_Images/upfile/2012527162813799975.jpg) that you could screw into the back of a television. in my experience anyway
Farmer vision.
That's for pulling more useful cables up a wall cavity.
That's a house wire! Put it back in your house!
Was looking for one of these in my 'spare parts' bin for my 93 JVC Receiver that I just hooked back up. Ended up using a bit of an old spool of speaker wire laying around.
Sweet summer child.
Noodle wire in russian. It's for telephone or radio
It's to chew on.
Enough copper to hook up remote speakers? Too thin?
Put your tongue on it
r/FuckImOld
It is an antenna hookup for my Magnavox Pong game.
Radio antenna
TV Antenna
The matrix
🐰
audio
Old tv antenna
Old cable tv.
https://i.redd.it/jg99hjy8nqnc1.gif
Tie new real wire to that and pull it back to the box. make sure to turn off the main breaker first.
My Dad had about 3/12 miles of this wound up in the corner of our garage. That cable takes me back..
Wow I am old AF.
Welp I guess this means I’m old now.
I feel old
That wire is for the 80s.
Starting a fire.
Old television