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Old 27th Nov 2019, 5:57 pm   #6
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Default Re: What's this Baird?

One of those was our family telly for many years.

It came as a purely 405 line set, and only later was fitted with the UHF tuner and a few other bits to enable 625 lines and BBC2. I was there at the time, it seemed to take about 20 mins to convert the set, and a bit longer to fit a second aerial and feeder.

The VHF tuner was a turret job and had a 'U' position as already said, which flipped the system switch to 625.

The UHF tuner was free rotating with a ball drive. The transparent knob had a slower moving scale underneath it.

We were watching one of these sets when Emley moor mast fell and our UHF picture vanished.

David
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