brand new but very old aerials for sale

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


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geoff

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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diminishing number of producers.

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...

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Rod

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)

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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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.

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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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

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.

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?

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Andrew May wrote in news:ag1c59F276qU1
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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.


Have new TVs ditched the analogue tuner now?

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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