brand new but very old aerials for sale

[Bill Wright]

I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

[Graham.]

In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

[charles]

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.

[Bill Wright]

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'.

Bill

[Graham.]

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit & veg.

[Steve Terry]

Try getting her to move to frozen foods, might get a better reflected signal off the freezers?

Steve Terry

[Graham.]

Trur story (I'm afraid to say). She once had me paged over the Tannoy in a supermarket when we got separated. After she did it, the woman on customer Services asked how old her little boy was. 33 she replied.

[Graham.]

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV. Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was subjectively better on 405 anyway.

[Ian Jackson]

In message , Graham. writes

In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the

625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line pictures had far better sharpness and contrast.

[geoff]

In message , Graham. writes

You just prolly had problems pearing

[The Natural Philosopher]

Apple phone would have worked..

[polygonum]

Should have tried the toothpaste aisle...

[Graham.]

...Packs of Signal. (Took me a while)

[Graham.]

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same programme was also available on 625.

[Roderick Stewart]

Or maybe a Blackberry...?

Rod.

[The Natural Philosopher]

You could have built one from a Raspberry Pi..

..but without the proper red and black currents, not much chance of it working.

[Roderick Stewart]

It's enough to make you feel quite meloncholy.

Rod.

[John Williamson]

Only on Orange.

[John Rumm]

ok if you carefully select alternatives of the right size. Measure them with a green gauge perhaps?