[Boatanchors] Ancient TV's.

[AI2Q]

Ken:

I still have my dad's original D'Andrea TV with continuous tuner. We used to 
copy 2-meter AM with it. It tunes from 6-meters on up, with a separate 
bandspread dial for the FM broadcast portion of the band (where the video is 
disabled).

If you're interested in purchasing it, let me know off list.

Thanks.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Maine
ARRL, FOC 1861, AWA, QRP-L 687
http://users.adelphia.net/~alexmm/ai2q.htm




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ken Hickman
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net ; boatanchors at theporch.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Ancient TV's.


Hi Gang,

Speaking of ancient tv's, I had what I recollect as an Atwater Kent that had
a Mallory Inductuner and had a 21 Mc.
sound lineup. Before, I believe, the practice of using 4.5 Mc. takeoff for
the sound became the practice.
Anyway, the tuner tuned continuously from channel 2 to the top vhf channel
which included the CAA Air Traffic
Control frequencies. I used to monitor the local Tower and Approach Control.
(I was one of the controllers).
My youngest son got up in the attic when I wasn't looking and seeing those
beautiful colored circular disks for
the tuning, one rotating clockwise and the other counter clockwise, he spun
them fast, hitting the stop and breaking
the Inductuner. I think if I had happened upon him when he did that, I don't
know what I would have done!!!!
That hurt! I had stripped everything off  the chassis but the tuner and the
21 Mc sound channel and audio output.

If anyone recognizes the tv I refer to and happens to know where I might
find one please let me know.

I am still looking for the "Pull-Pull" circuit r.f. oscillator I used as my
first ham transmitter. (Not Push-Pull!).

Ken N5CM


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