Early Color TV Home Labs 2011!

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I'm starting a new theme!


I just acquired the missing link to all my test gear: a Sony Trinitron SSM-14N5U video monitor! Pretty cool set; it's got on-screen menus, selectable PAL/SECAM/NTSC (with or without comb filter) decoders built right in, and different jacks in the back so I can hook it up in different ways.

That means I have all the gear I need to align and test color TV's now, and since the wife was nice enough to buy me shelving, I finally have a way to organize it. On the shelves are the B&K bar gen, Eico sweep gen, Sony reference monitor, Tek O-Scope, RCA Isotap trasformer, soldering iron, and all the various hand tools of the trade. Not a bad way to spend 1kw of power (when all the receivers are on, anyway). Powered up showing NTSC bars are the monitor, the CTC-7 and the recent Philco hybrid roundie acquisition. Off to the side is the CTC-4, awaiting purity assembly or a better CRT (might have an AXP on the way).

I showed you mine, now you show me yours!