brand new but very old aerials for sale

[damduck-egg]

When your credit runs out why don't we get the Pips.

G.Harman

[Tim+]

Probably run out of juice...

Tim

[therustyone]

Up in't Tyne-Tees area 625 arrived very late. Folk who had bought UHF sets= in anticipation often found the valves in the UHF tuner had poisoned catho= des due to years of lack of use and the picture was pretty dire when they w= anted it. When I were a lad, there was an unofficial procedure for running= the heaters at 120% voltage and putting HT onto all electrodes (except cat= hode and 1st grid) for a minute to burn the gunge off the cathode. The kid= s today wouldn't believe this.

rusty.

[Steve Terry]

That's Norf of Luton init? I don't think my passport visa is valid that far

Steve Terry

[Peter Johnson]

A few years ago, not long after I had discovered this group, friends bought and restored a cottage in Wales, on the border west of Shrewsbury. I called in just after they had finished, when he said the TV signal was crap, he had installed the aerial from his old house. Find out what you need for this area, I told him, one that works for Waltham won't work here.

[R. Mark Clayton]

How much?!?

just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year.

[Bill Wright]

These are brand new large high gain grouped aerials, not 18 element aerials.

Bill

[Owain]

I sent my 10" b/w telly for recycling yesterday, so I'd need colour aerials now.

Owain

[tony sayer]

In article , R. Mark Clayton scribeth thus

Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a few bob?...

[tony sayer]

In article , Ian Jackson scribeth thus

When I started work at PYE TVT I first saw what 625 line could do!, amazed at how good it was but of course with the Neg going modulation it did seem less vibrant than what the Pos 405 line did but the detail was astounding for those times!.

Also converted an olde 405 line set to 625 managed to get the timebase up there tweaked the IF, added a UHF tuner changed the demod diode polarity built up an FM strip for the sound demod, bit of a sod that but still.

Course in those days receiving Crystal palace just south of Cambridge wasn't too good but on a few foggy nights when there was a bit of a lift on it was surprising just what could be achieved:)...

[Huge]

Yep. A few bob. 25p.

[geoff]

What have I started ??

[Graham.]

The classic set for modification was the Bush TV53. I got a good BBC2 picture on one but IIRC never tackled the sound.

Later on I put a Teletext card in a 17in Thorn 8000. The first time I used it I thought CEEFAX had a problem because the newsflash page said the Pope had died, when everybody knew he had died a few weeks earlier.

Later still I put a NICAM card in a no name 14in B&W portable.

[Bill Wright]

Round here they point the top grey and the bottom mud-coloured.

Bill

[Graham.]

Leave it out Rodney, these come with a written Provence.

[John Rumm]

A juicy thread ;-)

[Steve Terry]

Have you ever seen a Jaybeam MBM88? I used to use one on 70Cm Amateur radio, it must have been 15 foot long! and I think it had a genuine 22dbi gain

A group "A" must be over 10 feet long.

Serious serious aerial i can't think of none better, except 4 of them stacked (which is what EME users favour on 70Cm)

Steve Terry

[Jules Richardson]

They're in Bill's loft, 16 miles from where Bill is. HTH etc.

[Jules Richardson]

That's more like several millibob, surely?

[Bill Wright]

There used to be a WMC in Rotherham that had four stacked MBM46s. It was the wonder of the age.

Here's an XG21

's four stacked high gain aerials: