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I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are
from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials
are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from
the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes
are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials
of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off
wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for
each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note
down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect
though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants
to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:03:06 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are
from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials
are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from
the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes
are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials
of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off
wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for
each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note
down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect
though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants
to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.



--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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In article ,
Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:03:06 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are
from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials
are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from
the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes
are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials
of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off
wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for
each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note
down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect
though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants
to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

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Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

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charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:
charles wrote:
snip
And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was only in fruit &
veg.

Try getting her to move to frozen foods, might get a better reflected
signal off the freezers?

Steve Terry
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 21:34:50 -0000, "Steve Terry"
wrote:

Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:
charles wrote:
snip
And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was only in fruit &
veg.

Try getting her to move to frozen foods, might get a better reflected
signal off the freezers?

Steve Terry

Trur story (I'm afraid to say).
She once had me paged over the Tannoy in a supermarket when we got
separated. After she did it, the woman on customer Services asked how
old her little boy was. 33 she replied.



--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the
rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV.
Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was
subjectively better on 405 anyway.



--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the
rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV.
Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was
subjectively better on 405 anyway.

In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the
625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line
pictures had far better sharpness and contrast.
--
Ian

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In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


--
geoff

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On 07/11/12 23:25, geoff wrote:
In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in
the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


Apple phone would have worked..

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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

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On 07/11/2012 20:25, Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

Should have tried the toothpaste aisle...

--
Rod

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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:56:07 +0000, polygonum
wrote:

On 07/11/2012 20:25, Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

charles wrote:

In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in
Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s.


Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace.

Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

Bill

And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

Should have tried the toothpaste aisle...


....Packs of Signal.
(Took me a while)

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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SOn Wed, 7 Nov 2012 22:37:30 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the
rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV.
Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was
subjectively better on 405 anyway.

In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the
625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line
pictures had far better sharpness and contrast.

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill

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On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.

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On Nov 8, 9:11*am, Owain wrote:
On Nov 8, 1:43*am, Bill Wright *wrote:

Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Are they digital?


And widescreen?

--
Halmyre

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Andrew May wrote in news:ag1c59F276qU1
@mid.individual.net:

On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.


Have new TVs ditched the analogue tuner now?

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In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


Apple phone would have worked..

Or maybe a Blackberry...?

Rod.
--

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On 08/11/12 11:48, Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


Apple phone would have worked..

Or maybe a Blackberry...?

Rod.
--

You could have built one from a Raspberry Pi..

...but without the proper red and black currents, not much chance of it
working.


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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

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In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
And mobile phones are rubbish,
I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said
no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


Apple phone would have worked..

Or maybe a Blackberry...?

Rod.
--

You could have built one from a Raspberry Pi..

...but without the proper red and black currents, not much chance of it
working.

It's enough to make you feel quite meloncholy.

Rod.
--

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Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and
tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit &
veg.

You just prolly had problems pearing


Apple phone would have worked..

Or maybe a Blackberry...?

Only on Orange.


--
Tciao for Now!

John.

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Owain wrote:
On Nov 8, 1:43 am, Bill Wright wrote:
Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Are they digital?

Owain

I knew someone would ask that. OK, I admit it, they are for three black
and white analogue channels? You've caught me out. Satisfied?

Bill

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Andrew May wrote:
On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.
There's an assortment of XG14s, XG21s, MBM48s, MBM70s, MBM88s, various
groups. They are in the loft and hard to get at so I thought I'd see if
there was any interest before I went to have a look. It's 16 miles from
here as well.

Bill

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On 08/11/2012 15:12, Bill Wright wrote:
Andrew May wrote:
On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.
There's an assortment of XG14s, XG21s, MBM48s, MBM70s, MBM88s, various
groups. They are in the loft and hard to get at so I thought I'd see if
there was any interest before I went to have a look. It's 16 miles from
here as well.

For them as don't know where "here" is I'll tell thee; he lives somwear
in't Sheffield-Rovrum area, otherwise known as't People's Republic on't
South Yorkshire.
--
Phil Cook

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Phil Cook wrote:
On 08/11/2012 15:12, Bill Wright wrote:
Andrew May wrote:
On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

There's an assortment of XG14s, XG21s, MBM48s, MBM70s, MBM88s,
various groups. They are in the loft and hard to get at so I thought
I'd see if there was any interest before I went to have a look. It's
16 miles from here as well.

For them as don't know where "here" is I'll tell thee; he lives
somwear in't Sheffield-Rovrum area, otherwise known as't People's
Republic on't South Yorkshire.

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

Steve Terry
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:


Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to
Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to
believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that
'this is near London'.

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.

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from
the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are
grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the
1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are
battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of
choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband
models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each
aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down
the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though.
These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take
the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

How much?!?

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

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R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from
the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are
grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the
1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are
battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of
choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband
models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each
aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down
the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though.
These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take
the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

How much?!?

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

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

Bill

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In article , R. Mark Clayton
scribeth thus

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from
the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are
grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the
1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are
battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of
choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband
models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each
aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down
the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though.
These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take
the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

How much?!?

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




Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a
few bob?...
--
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In article , Ian Jackson ianREMOVET
scribeth thus
In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the
rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV.
Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was
subjectively better on 405 anyway.

In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the
625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line
pictures had far better sharpness and contrast.

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:)...

--
Tony Sayer

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In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill

Wouldn't mind one of the Jaybeam parabeam ones perhaps, for group B if
you have one?..
--
Tony Sayer

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In message , Bill Wright
writes
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Ah they're reproducing now then, are they ?

--
geoff

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In message , Phil Cook
writes
On 08/11/2012 15:12, Bill Wright wrote:
Andrew May wrote:
On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.
There's an assortment of XG14s, XG21s, MBM48s, MBM70s, MBM88s, various
groups. They are in the loft and hard to get at so I thought I'd see if
there was any interest before I went to have a look. It's 16 miles from
here as well.

For them as don't know where "here" is I'll tell thee; he lives somwear
in't Sheffield-Rovrum area, otherwise known as't People's Republic on't
South Yorkshire.


Is that where they paint the top third of the picture blue and the
bottom third green and call it colour TV?

--
geoff

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On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:09:24 GMT, DerbyBorn
wrote:

Andrew May wrote in news:ag1c59F276qU1
:

On 08/11/2012 01:43, Bill Wright wrote:
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.


Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill
Well it might help if you said where they were. It could be a long
journey to collect a 15 quid aerial.


Have new TVs ditched the analogue tuner now?
I've yet to see a TV that doesn't have one. Not sure about the VBI
text and NICAM chipsets though.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:26:45 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Ian Jackson ianREMOVET
scribeth thus
In message , Graham.
writes
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Graham. wrote:



In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I
remember thinking how short-sighted that was.

I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405
only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial.

Bill

In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the
rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV.
Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was
subjectively better on 405 anyway.

In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the
625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line
pictures had far better sharpness and contrast.

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:)...


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.

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Graham.
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tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
Graham. wrote:

So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off
the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same
programme was also available on 625.

Look guys this is all vastly amusing but does anyone want these ****ing
aerials?

Bill

Wouldn't mind one of the Jaybeam parabeam ones perhaps, for group B if
you have one?..
Yes, there's bound to be Gp Bs because that was the group we used most.
If there's enough interest I'll go round there and drag them out of the
loft.

Bill

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geoff wrote:

Is that where they paint the top third of the picture blue and the
bottom third green and call it colour TV?


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

Bill

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:28:46 -0000, "R. Mark Clayton"
wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from
the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are
grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the
1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are
battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of
choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband
models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each
aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down
the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though.
These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take
the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial.

Bill

How much?!?

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



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

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Graham.
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