brand new but very old aerials for sale

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

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.



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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.

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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

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

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.

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%Profound_observation%

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



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%Profound_observation%

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.



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In message , Graham.
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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.

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.
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Ian