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Sideband · 5th Jan 2005, 9:15 pm

Everyone seems to have summed up the situation pretty well. The take up of FM was slow in this country and many people didn't want to spend money on a new set at the start of FM transmissions. FM tuners were a great help here because as stated earlier, they could be connected to the gram socket. In the late fifties, my brother was in the radio trade and we had an FM tuner (home-built Jason job I understand) which he used to record Top of the Pops on Sundays. Years later I also aquired a Jason tuner (four EF91's) and used it through a home-built Hi Fi system. I even tried building a stereo decoder for it but it was never really very successful. So separate tuners have always been of great use as far as I am concerned.

Rich.

5th Jan 2005, 9:15 pm	#9
Sideband Dekatron Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Croydon, Surrey, UK. Posts: 7,572	Re: Early FM tuners Everyone seems to have summed up the situation pretty well. The take up of FM was slow in this country and many people didn't want to spend money on a new set at the start of FM transmissions. FM tuners were a great help here because as stated earlier, they could be connected to the gram socket. In the late fifties, my brother was in the radio trade and we had an FM tuner (home-built Jason job I understand) which he used to record Top of the Pops on Sundays. Years later I also aquired a Jason tuner (four EF91's) and used it through a home-built Hi Fi system. I even tried building a stereo decoder for it but it was never really very successful. So separate tuners have always been of great use as far as I am concerned. Rich.