[Jeffhs]

[QUOTE=Einar72;2838423]I have the RA-109 Sherbrooke, which has the additional AM tuner dial on the right side of the escutcheon and the VHF-FM down the right. Both have the maddening dummy plate for the unreleased UHF option.

What is so maddening about the dummy plate? These were on a lot of VHF-only TVs made in the '50s-'60s. It's interesting (to me anyway) why the UHF tuner was not available for the RA-109; if there was a hole for such a tuner (likely with a bracket behind it), the optional UHF conversion kit should have been available as well. There may also have been an all-channel version of the RA-109, which would have been available in UHF only areas such as Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fresno, California, Youngstown, Ohio, et al. The nice thing about those early all-channel sets was they were ready for the future, and could also be used in VHF-only areas when those cities/towns eventually got their first UHF station. Evansville, Indiana comes to my mind. They have mostly VHF stations, but their NBC affiliate, WFIE-TV (which was likely the first TV station in the city; WFIE may have stood for First In Evansville) was on channel 14. Scranton, Pennsylvania is another UHF-only market in which an all-channel version of the RA-109 would have sold well, and the list goes on.