Got a decent Zenith at a garage sale!

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by 3Guncolor

Charles,
I must be getting old oh-well... Your newest find was about a year old when KMET signed on and your truck was a little over a year old when KMET died. 1968 to Feb 1987... One of the greatest rock stations of all time... 58000 watts of RCA power..
"A little bit of heaven 94.7 KMET Tweedle-Dee"...

I remember it like yesterday. They started a campaign that nobody understood... until it was over. They started saying, with an eerie voice; "FOURTEEN DAYS... then THIRTEEN DAYS.... etc etc. That was my favorite station. Then we were saddled with KNAC, which came out of Long Beach with what sounded like a 750 milliwatt transmitter . That one died in about '92. And yes, I do have KNAC stickers on hand for when early 90s vehicles get collectable!

Now on the posting:

I Variac'ed the Zenith (it's a 23XC36 chassis), and it came to life! It has it's problems, but basically it seems totally repairable. CRT is strong with great gray scale, and I got a picture. No color, and a bad horizontal blanking problem. So I will have to do some recapping, then likely troubleshoot the color circuits. I remember seeing weird problems in these chasses with the 3.58 oscillator transformer. I'll get into it soon, and will post more.

Charles