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Old 06-27-2009, 10:34 AM
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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.
I hate to think it, but I wonder if DuMont was so snooty that they only wanted to market their sets to affluent areas, such as New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and not to middle-America? Kind of like Caphart's Hi-Fi ad stating "If you have to ask the price, please don't write our sales office". Maybe DuMont was saying "If you live outside of uptown, you can't afford a DuMont".

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