UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Powered By Google Custom Search Vintage Radio and TV Service Data

Go Back   UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum > General Vintage Technology > General Vintage Technology Discussions

Notices

General Vintage Technology Discussions For general discussions about vintage radio and other vintage electronics etc.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 23rd Oct 2021, 8:51 pm   #341
Radio Wrangler
Moderator
 
Radio Wrangler's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Fife, Scotland, UK.
Posts: 22,800
Default Re: Vintage on telly

No, that won't detect anything. Everyone and his father knows you need a Solartron scope showing a radially-modulated Lissajous figure along with a humming noise to do any detectoring! Real-time 2-D is needed to discriminate between alien and spook activity. 0-dimensional LEDs, even if blue, just don't cut the ectoplasm.

Alien: "Take me to your leader!!!"
Me: "No, sorry, it would be cruel. I couldn't do that, not even if you were a Vogon."

David
__________________
Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done
Radio Wrangler is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24th Oct 2021, 11:41 pm   #342
McMurdo
Dekatron
 
McMurdo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Staffordshire Moorlands, UK.
Posts: 5,263
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Several 405-line tv's (looked like real pictures) on tonight's 'The Larkins' re-imagining of The Darling Buds of May. (ep.3). The larkins were having a new tv aerial, though the one fitted appeared to be a stack of UHF concoctions.
TVs appeared to be a Bush TV53 and Murphy V...something??) in the larkins house then a TV22 at the vicar's.
__________________
Kevin
McMurdo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 27th Oct 2021, 11:40 pm   #343
Graham G3ZVT
Dekatron
 
Graham G3ZVT's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 18,676
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

I went out to move my car just now only to hear on the radio a discussion about the difference between the Pye 25A, 25B, and 25C.

"The Frequency of Us" Episode 3
Skip to 6:55
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010wqg
__________________
--
Graham.
G3ZVT
Graham G3ZVT is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 6:13 am   #344
Cobaltblue
Moderator
 
Cobaltblue's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Exeter, Devon and Poole, Dorset UK.
Posts: 6,823
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Quote:
Originally Posted by rambo1152 View Post
I went out to move my car just now only to hear on the radio a discussion about the difference between the Pye 25A, 25B, and 25C.

"The Frequency of Us" Episode 3
Skip to 6:55
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010wqg
I Have listened to the first 3 episodes and have enjoyed the story so far the main character was a radio deaigner before the war.

Cheers
Mike T
__________________
Invisible airwaves crackle with life or at least they used to
Mike T BVWS member.
www.cossor.co.uk
Cobaltblue is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 11:07 am   #345
FERNSEH
Dekatron
 
FERNSEH's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK.
Posts: 7,444
Default Re: Vintage on telly

In a recent episode of MacGyver the team have to discover the data contained in this IC.
Looks like the frame output chip from a 1980s TV set.

DFWB.
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	MacGyver_IC.jpg
Views:	167
Size:	40.7 KB
ID:	244440  
FERNSEH is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 12:00 pm   #346
Graham G3ZVT
Dekatron
 
Graham G3ZVT's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 18,676
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobaltblue View Post

I Have listened to the first 3 episodes and have enjoyed the story so far the main character was a radio deaigner before the war.
Mike, if only you'd put an L between the A and the I in that typo, you would have coined a new term for a Phantom Twiddler
__________________
--
Graham.
G3ZVT
Graham G3ZVT is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 12:01 pm   #347
ms660
Dekatron
 
ms660's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cornwall, UK.
Posts: 13,454
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

What is it? (I have an idea but not completely sure)

What's the name of the film it appeared in ? (I know what film it is)

Lawrence.
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	quiz (2).jpg
Views:	144
Size:	32.8 KB
ID:	244446  
ms660 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 12:06 pm   #348
Graham G3ZVT
Dekatron
 
Graham G3ZVT's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 18,676
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Quote:
Originally Posted by ms660 View Post
What is it? (I have an idea but not completely sure)

What's the name of the film it appeared in ? (I know what film it is)

Lawrence.
Looks like a silver(ed) mica capacitor.
__________________
--
Graham.
G3ZVT
Graham G3ZVT is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 12:09 pm   #349
ms660
Dekatron
 
ms660's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cornwall, UK.
Posts: 13,454
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Quote:
Originally Posted by rambo1152 View Post
Looks like a silver(ed) mica capacitor.
That was my first thought.

EDIT: I might have posted the questions before quite a while ago but I couldn't find the post off hand so hence me posting the questions again.

Lawrence.
ms660 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 3:00 pm   #350
Graham G3ZVT
Dekatron
 
Graham G3ZVT's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 18,676
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

I don't know what film it was Lawrence, but there were some b l o o d y good condensers in "This Island Earth".
__________________
--
Graham.
G3ZVT
Graham G3ZVT is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 28th Oct 2021, 5:05 pm   #351
ms660
Dekatron
 
ms660's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cornwall, UK.
Posts: 13,454
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Some cryptic clues....

1) A type of insulating tape beginning with k....sub. the n with p and add an i that will give you an anagram for the title of the film.

2) Constantinople.

3) The person who's hand the "device" is on was a well known English actor.

Easier now.

Lawrence.
ms660 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th Oct 2021, 11:24 am   #352
bc312
Pentode
 
bc312's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Longfield, Kent, UK.
Posts: 239
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

The film is 'Topkapi' - not sure which actor though, perhaps Robert Morley or Peter Ustinov?

Mike
__________________
Leave me alone - I know what I'm doing.

BVWS member, EUG, G-QRP
Radio Bygones/Radiophile
bc312 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th Oct 2021, 11:30 am   #353
ms660
Dekatron
 
ms660's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cornwall, UK.
Posts: 13,454
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Quote:
Originally Posted by bc312 View Post
The film is 'Topkapi' - not sure which actor though, perhaps Robert Morley or Peter Ustinov?

Mike
Top gun

Robert Morley's hand in the photo.

I found my original quiz post on the forum about this and other films with radio bits, it was back in 2016, nobody back then got the Topkapi one.

Lawrence.
ms660 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th Oct 2021, 11:46 am   #354
bc312
Pentode
 
bc312's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Longfield, Kent, UK.
Posts: 239
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

It was the first clue Lawrence and a bit of Googling that did it.

Mike
__________________
Leave me alone - I know what I'm doing.

BVWS member, EUG, G-QRP
Radio Bygones/Radiophile
bc312 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th Oct 2021, 8:41 pm   #355
dave walsh
Dekatron
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Ramsbottom (Nr Bury) Lancs or Bexhill (Nr Hastings) Sussex.
Posts: 5,814
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Thanks for the Radio 4 reminder Graham and Mike [339 340*. I'd picked up on the title during my media watch but not really followed through on the "frequency" pun! I will now!

Dave W
dave walsh is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29th Oct 2021, 8:49 pm   #356
theoldtrout
Hexode
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, UK.
Posts: 315
Default Re: Vintage on telly

I watched 'Vigil' on catch up and noticed two Tektronix 7844 mainframe oscilloscopes in the captain's cabin, one of which was upside down!
theoldtrout is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 21st Nov 2021, 11:09 pm   #357
nigelr2000
Heptode
 
nigelr2000's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: North Walsham, Norfolk, UK.
Posts: 899
Default Re: Vintage Radios, TVs etc in films and on TV (NOT ANACHRONISMS)

Tonight's doctor who (21/11/2021 Village of the angels) contains a brilliant gaff, an Ultra Tape recorder with the feed reel loaded upside down so the reel rotates in the wrong direction, who would have thought the beeb wouldn't know how to load a tape recorder, very short video of it here filmed off my laptop so not great quality ******************************CJnk3CxjWkGf5ap8A
nigelr2000 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 26th Dec 2021, 7:52 pm   #358
bobhowe
Heptode
 
bobhowe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, UK.
Posts: 661
Default Bush DAC90 On Call The Midwife 2019 Christmas Special

Hi watching the above program on Drama Channel & there is a Bush DAC90 with a bright dial lamp has this set had an Ed Dinning Auto Transformer fitted ?
__________________
Kind regards, Bob.
bobhowe is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 26th Dec 2021, 7:56 pm   #359
Ed_Dinning
Dekatron
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK.
Posts: 8,172
Default Re: Bush DAC90 On Call The Midwife 2019 Christmas Special

If it powered up instantly then most likely a 60W lamp and bluetooth inside !

Ed
Ed_Dinning is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 26th Dec 2021, 8:00 pm   #360
bobhowe
Heptode
 
bobhowe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, UK.
Posts: 661
Default Re: Bush DAC90 On Call The Midwife 2019 Christmas Special

Hi Ed it was switched on in the background hope the bluetooth mob have not been at it
__________________
Kind regards, Bob.
bobhowe is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools



All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:34 am.


All information and advice on this forum is subject to the WARNING AND DISCLAIMER located at https://www.vintage-radio.net/rules.html.
Failure to heed this warning may result in death or serious injury to yourself and/or others.


Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright ©2002 - 2023, Paul Stenning.