Galaxy DX 929 installed

Ive done business with Sparky also. You cant go wrong with him and great prices too. Im just about to make another purchase there.

 

" 11 meters, or the Chicken Band "

Could you show me where a chicken band is ? Now can find 11 meters .....

 

dang ... I use to watch TV DX ... yep distant TV stations on a 25 year old TV .....

When I worked in TV repair in the early 70's everything was still tube solid state TV's were just comming in and people FIXED a TV if it went bad ....

Antennas on rotors like the U100 were common along with preamps since the UHF tuner was a diode mixer and required millavolts to get anything.


The good old days

 

Good question....where did it get the name of "chicken" band?

I've always wondered what year was the last year they quit putting tubes in radios and TV's. (not counting the picture tube in a TV)

And those antennas you speak of....must be those big beam type looking things you used to see on every house? Heck growing up we had a knob style TV (no remote control) but it had rabbit ears on it.

 

I worked for Sears in 1973 and we were switching over then. The 528.4196 Warwick was a peace of junk but solid state

Yagi TV antennas using mulity driven feeds were common and the old U-100 rotors were every where ....

Preamps ... 20db of gain with 5 DB NF but on UHF the tuners could not pick up a 100,000 watt ERP station at 25 miles yes you needed one .....

The good old days

 

SOME CRT'S the yoke was glue on the tube and you changed both. IF you had to replace a tube with a detachable yoke have fun with convering it ...... I can remember carring a generator with me to put up the lines needed to do it in the home .....

NO fun not when you had 8 to 10 calls a day ......

 

Surprised to hear the picture tube didn't break. And you say it was a 1974 model and it still had tubes in it....????? I thought for sure tube type TV's were gone by then. Oldest TV in our house was a 1977 Sears 2 knob with rabbit ears on top. It was solid state.

My grandmothers neighbors had a TV that got hit by lightning when it came down the antenna, but according to her, it blew the face out of the TV, my aunt says it was a smoldering shell and the fire department had to be called. I figure that mean the picture tube went bye bye in a million shards of glass.