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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
That is pretty cool to have that old station broadcasting vintage shows. Are you feeding the TV with luma only from a converter box?
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No the box unfortunately has composite video out. Even though this was a cheaper line RCA set with only three video IF stages, you can still make out the color dots on saturated colors.
The tubes are doing well. I never actually tested them but I see no appreciable aging. The CRT was a replacement CBS Hytron from around 1957 and has low hours. I bought the set from just outside Schenectady (it must have received first WRGB which claims to be the oldest TV station in the U.S.) from the original owners. I mentioned earlier in this thread how the family retired the set to the attic around 1960 where it sat for 55 years. It was in remarkably good shape apart the laquer finish flaking and from mice nesting under the chassis. (When I pulled the chassis, it was filled with cotten. Only the focus wire was partially nibbled). Most of the tubes are original RCA and so this set must have had a fairly light life.
01-20-2022, 06:31 PM
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