Reddit reviews RiteAV - RCA Female to F-Type Coax Male Adapter
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RCA Female to F-Type Coax Male Adapter
Protip: don't buy the Atari switchbox or whatever, get yourself something like this. The quality is way better, it's more reliable, and cheaper. Pair it with a female rca to female coax adapter.
I love how you've hooked it up in the meantime.
This isn't the sub for that, but have you considered that it might be connected wrong? That RCA connector on the Atari is intended to be connected to a coaxial jack on the TV (via an adapter). It won't work with the RCA (yellow) input on your TV.
You really shouldn't use paperclips or any object that doesn't have a coax/RF jack on it. Antenna ports weren't designed for anything but, and I've managed to break two antenna jacks this way (one on a TV, the other on a VCR).
I would hook a coax cable to the TV and see if that picks up anything. It probably won't because of the insulation, in which case, take a pair of scissors or pliers, cut the other end off and carefully strip away 1-2 inches of insulation so the copper or whatever metal the cable is exposed. It's basically a home bare wire antenna, and it should work OK for you.
If you insist on a paperclip buy one of these first so you don't mess up your antenna jack on your TV.
Oh wow, I had forgotten how hard these were to get. Try a VCR, they usually let you tune channels when it's outputting composite.
And don't worry about that switch box, not a lot of people like it much since it makes the output really noisy and unstable as it gets older. You can get this little adapter to plug it right in to the coax jack, and the output will be as clean as it could be, provided it's still RF we're dealing with.
It's this what you're looking for?
The price is pretty similar to the DIN to RCA cable. I don't know if you'd be able to find something cheaper.