Merry Christmas

BERT said:

And having to adjust the "rabbit ears"(or bush-cable depending on where you are) for the best reception for Hockey Night In Canada...

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My family was in Dublin in the late 50's, RTE (The BBC for Ireland) was appalling so the houses all hosted huge outside antenna in an effort to get the BBC/ITV from transmitters in the UK. Quite a few Dubliners must have been killed from trying to get the best signal whilst up a chimney and adjusting a 20 ft antenna and trying to listen to someone in the house telling them what the picture was like.

daveforty said:

...and 'ghosting' from reflected signals...

Still have a TD160 with an SME3009 arm. Havent used it this century, until my daughter wanted to try it. It works well, but I think she has already tired of turning the LPs over after 20minutes.


Did find some strange things in the record box, The Doll? dont remember buying that...

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I had SME but then went Mission 774 (the original one).... Now Pro-ject 'budget' special
(Had I stayed faithful to vinyl I'd love to have tried the 'terminator' parallel tracking jobbie)

kommando said:

... been killed from trying to get the best signal whilst up a chimney and adjusting a 20 ft antenna and trying to listen to someone in the house telling them what the picture was like.

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Wasnt that the fate that befell Rod Hull (of Emu fame)

A few companys made parallel tracking turntables, I remember Raymond Baxter demonstrating the new technology on Tomorrows World. Disc cutting lathes move their cutting head in that manner, so it seems reasonable to track the disc the same way.

I remember the days of horizontal and vertical hold, getting up out of the seat to fiddle with the buttons, only two channels, which were both black and white,
And now? Hundreds of channels and nearly all shite.

Yep two channels on 405 lines and then the big leap to 625 lines where you could watch bbc2 I seem to remember ? A lot of TVs were rented some had slot meters built-in
There's hundreds of channels of dross these days ,I search for ages sometimes for something decent to watch

Mart UK said:

Oh dear, off topic again.

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Back in the VHF days of television watching out in the rural areas, when ever it snowed hard we would get snowmobiles coming out of the woodworks along the road. We knew when they were coming past by the static on the tv screen as they went by. Those un-shielded sparkplugs.
Anybody get a Heathkit for Christmas present back then?
Cheers,
Tom

baz said:

Yep two channels on 405 lines and then the big leap to 625 lines where you could watch bbc2 I seem to remember ? A lot of TVs were rented some had slot meters built-in
There's hundreds of channels of dross these days ,I search for ages sometimes for something decent to watch

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baz said:

Yep two channels on 405 lines and then the big leap to 625 lines where you could watch bbc2 I seem to remember ? A lot of TVs were rented some had slot meters built-in
There's hundreds of channels of dross these days ,I search for ages sometimes for something decent to watch

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People don't believe me when I tell them, but we had a slot TV when we were kids. It was from Radio Rentals. The money always used to run out at the climactic finale of any programme or film . I can clearly remember my brother and I were watching "Voyage to the bottom of the sea" with Richard Basehart. A giant squid had attached itself to the front of the Seaview and it was being dragged to the ocean bed. The tension was building as the submarine was about to be crushed under the tremendous pressure. The hull was creaking, the crew were desperate, then suddenly they all disappeared into an ever decreasing white circle. A whirlpool ? no, the money had run out !!!

When I mention it now people think I'm Radio rental as well !!