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Old 07-01-2009, 09:52 AM
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REAL TVs have TUBES!
 
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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV View Post
Getting back on topic
My dog chews on his leash too often. Also, I have found that the tomatoes at fruit stands on Hwy 126 are juicier than the ones on Hwy 118. Oh, and the air raid sirens in all of Los Angeles County (except for Hermosa Beach) were disconnected in January of 1986.


I think you got derailed.

Trying again toward the topic; I've worked on a lot of those early Zenith Chro-II sets with electronic varactor tuners. They have a pop-out panel inside the door which has 12 or 16 tuning wheels; each capable of tuning any channel VHF or UHF. To have it tune directly through channels, just set the wheels one at a time to your local channels, and that way there aren't any empty ones between. If I'm not mistaken, those sets came with empty black squares to slip into the channel display strip, which would cause the selector to skip the blacked out position. But I can't remember now if that was on these early ones, or even another maker. It's been a long time...

Charles
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