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    Anyone know a good place to buy old-style RF switches? Atari Age sells them for $4 which is better than Radio Shack's $7 ones but does anyone know where to buy them cheaper? I could use about 10 of them to put with systems I would like to sell. Thanks for the help.
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    goodwill or st.vdp... i usually find em every now and then in eugene for about a buck or two.... maybe cheaped.

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    I buy them when I can find them for $1 or so at thrift stores but I need a quantity of new ones.
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    If you don't need the switch, go to Radio Shack and look for the direct RCA RF to Coax converter adapters. Its just a tiny little thing you stick on the RCA cable and screw into your TV. The picture quality is about as good as conceivably possible over RF.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davidbrit2
    If you don't need the switch, go to Radio Shack and look for the direct RCA RF to Coax converter adapters. Its just a tiny little thing you stick on the RCA cable and screw into your TV. The picture quality is about as good as conceivably possible over RF.
    I second that thought.

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    I got one you can have for $3. Besides you don't need them anyway. I use a strange little adapter I found at Radio Shack it takes a standard RCA female socket and makes it a male F connector. There in one piece I screw it right to my TV.

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    I guess I didn't word my question properly. I am aware of the the adapter plug thing. I need old-style RF switches to put with systems I intend to sell. They need to be similar to the ones that originally came with the system (Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, etc.). I know they can be bought from Atari Age for $4 each and I just wondered if anyone knew where to get them in bulk for a better price.
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