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>im not getting it to work
What exactly? If you're trying to watch TV on it, there are no more analogue signals so it won't work.

Double check that theres no celery interrupting the picture.

>>61375873
what this guy said

Also its an output only kinda thingy, you can't show something from an external source on this

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>>61375833
im plugging a console in through a composite to 3.5mm adapter, lrn2read

>>61375873
only a couple carrots

Composite video is a completely different signal than System M. You need to find an RF adapter for your console and then physically adapt its coax to to the proprietary antenna connector.

>>61375909
output only? but an antenna receives an external signal?

ive disconnected the physical antenna and the tv stops on a few different channels meaning its picking something up but its mostly just static, sometimes I can faintly hear the game music

>>61375939
I was hoping I wouldnt have to solder anything but thats the only solution?

Yes but the antenna doesn't use a 3.5/RCA to connect, they use a coax trype connector which you had to screw on your TV back in the day, also you already have the physical antenna so i'm pretty sure the cables you have aren't for that.

Do you have the model of the pocket tv?

>>61375971
You don't need to solder anything. You just need an RF modulator. Any RF modulator will do. Virtually all VCRs have an RF modulator built-in which will work, if you happen to have one of those.

>>61375971
you shouldn't have to solder anything, but it may be easier than finding a premade adapter, especially as you're going to have to experiment to find the right pinout.

>>61375991
I have seen 3.5mm jacks used for antenna inputs, but even if it's not an antenna input, OP could just connect a coax cable to the actual antenna of the TV. Might not be the best connection, but it will work.

>>61376072
if the of put the model he has in his pic, it's an external antenna connector on a 3.5mm mono jack. so what he needs to do is:
- find rf adapter for his console
- connect that to a 75 to 300 ohm adapter
- find mono 3.5mm headphone cable
- chop it in half
- connect 300-ohm leads to headphone cable

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>>61376137
>- find rf adapter for his console
There's no need for a special snowflake console-specific RF adapter though. Any generic RF modulator or VCR will work.

Last I checked you could still find RF modulators in stores, but that may have changed.

>>61376251
you're autistically correct that he could, in fact, wear a vcr and a car battery as a backpack when he wants to use his game boy-sized portable tv. i'm assuming he wants an unpowered box the size of a pack of playing cards instead.

>>61376421
Is this supposed to be a portable setup? I figured by "console", OP was referring to something that had to be plugged in at home anyway.

>>61376463
i'm assuming that the reason for wanting a handheld TV rather than a cheap 9" lcd is a portability requirement. most old consoles can be powered off of 1-2 amps 9VDC or 9VAC, so it's quite plausible to make them portable.

>>61376568
I see. That makes sense.

Sorry, consoles aren't really my area of expertise (implying I even have an area of expertise)

>>61376604
ahh, i can see why you thought what you did then. but yeah, the likely candidates for what he's doing could run for a couple hours on a laptop battery, and even if he was just going for a luggable setup are a couple pounds and the size of a textbook rather than ten pounds and 2u rack-mountable.

the "specific" rfus are also usually specific within manufacturer at most and go for like $5, so it's not really a snowflake part.