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[old_tv_nut]

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

I'm curious. Where did you find this image? Was it an opening for a local TV show in your area? If so, I can't imagine how you are receiving the image using just a pair of rabbit ears on your TV, unless you are using a cable box which is hidden hehind the set (I do not see a cable box anywhere near the TV), or the local cable operator offers a service known as "streaming" service, which does not use cable boxes. I have Spectrum streaming service and do not have a cable box. The service offers just about everything regular cable does; however, as I said, there is no cable box required. I have this type of service rather than Spectrum's standard cable, which does require a box. I signed up for this service rather than cable with a box because I am a senior citizen (I will be 66 in July) on a fixed income, and do not want or need any extra charges on my cable bill beyond those absolutely necessary. I do not have or want any optional services (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, et al.) on my cable for the same reason.

BTW, your RCA color TV brings back memories for me, as I had relatives years ago, now long since deceased, who owned an RCA Victor "Super" TV that looked exactly like yours, except theirs, IIRC, was b&w. Their set must have been made long before 1964, as it was VHF only (Cleveland did not get its first UHF TV station, an NET [now PBS] affiliate, until some time in 1965).

Your TV looks as if it must have been from the same time period, so it probably was VHF only. Just as well, I guess, since the first UHF TV stations were low-powered operations with very limited coverage areas; the PBS station in Cleveland, for example, just barely reached the area where I grew up, and in fact the elementary school in my area had a quite large UHF roof-mounted antenna just to receive that channel. (There was also a VHF antenna mounted on the same mast, but I don't think it was used nearly as much as the UHF antenna.) I lived just around the corner, almost literally, from where the school was located, and could not receive the station for love or money. That is, I could see a picture from the station, but it was so snowy it was practically unusable. We did not have really good reception on that channel (channel 25) until some years later, when my dad installed two TV antennas, one VHF and one UHF, in the attic of our house. That cleared up reception on channel 25 for us, but it might as well not have, since the station's programming was meant for the schools in our area.

Channel 25 did not have mainstream programming until at least the early 1970s, if not later; the station signed off at midnight or an hour or so later. The reception problems in outlying areas were not taken care of until years later, when the station's licensee installed translator stations for those areas, most of which were well outside the Greater Cleveland area.

[old_tv_nut]

As I have explained before, I have a DTV converter box that also can play images and videos from a thumb drive. I found the flag image on line and superposed the lettering in Photoshop, then saved it to the thumb drive.

[old_tv_nut]

[Dude111]

Wow she is beautiful!

Thank you for the pics

[kf4rca]

Yep. What model dtv converter box is that? All the ones I've seen can't take a usb drive.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by kf4rca

Yep. What model dtv converter box is that? All the ones I've seen can't take a usb drive.

It's a Chinese-made unit I found on Amazon, I think. I can't find an identical one anymore, but you can find others with a USB port by searching "DTV converter."

One warning - some of these (like the one I bought) have 12 volt antenna power on the antenna input, and will burn out the 12 volt supply switch if ordinary rabbit ears are plugged in and maybe the rabbit ears too. Mine had that; it was possible to turn off the 12 volts in the menus, but it defaulted to ON when powered down! I had to return it and get a replacement.

So, if you get one of these, be sure to get a DC-blocking connector for the antenna input too.

[kf4rca]

Thanks for the info. I found some on Ebay.

[Oldperson1]

Who knew a 60-year-old TV could do patriotic slideshows better than half the "smart" gear out there... and with way more style.