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<span style="font-style: italic">Some</span> of the local stations switched-off last night as per the original digital switchover schedule.

I didn't manage to muster enough enthusiasm to have a TV watching party though - not that I can receive any of these stations here anyway :wink:

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I cannot believe I just watched 2:20 of three Orlando TV stations going off the analog airwaves.

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rick_ingram said:
I cannot believe I just watched 2:20 of three Orlando TV stations going off the analog airwaves.

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:lol:

We do live exciting lives, don't we, Rick? Truly on the edge! :jester:
 
A lot of stations lease their equipment and had made deals to match the cut over dates originally set by the government. These guys had little choice. Furthermore, in most large metropolitan markets, the vast majority of viewers are on cable, so their viewership (advertising fees) won't slip as much as delaying the cut over would have.

Personally, when everyone went to color, I as so enamored with black and white, I just kept the B&W set, still working fine, but the tubes and tube testers are hard to find. Not wanting to be on the leading edge of technology, I guess it is time to buy a used color set.
 
TR6oldtimer said:
Personally, when everyone went to color, I as so enamored with black and white, I just kept the B&W set, still working fine, but the tubes and tube testers are hard to find. Not wanting to be on the leading edge of technology, I guess it is time to buy a used color set.
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I never got into messing with TV's but did build a stereo amplifier in the mid sixties using a pair of Delco radios. The ones with the reverb, no less! :yesnod: Must have been really young at the time. :wink:
 
TR6oldtimer said:
A lot of stations lease their equipment and had made deals to match the cut over dates originally set by the government.
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I think the PBS station (one of those that went dark last night) said it would have cost them $10k a month to continue broadcasting analog.

If I could put an antenna up on the chimney I probably could get all of those stations on digital - as it is I can only get one of them (sometimes), but the quality is incredible.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Not wanting to be on the leading edge of technology, I guess it is time to buy a used color set.[/QUOTE]

Maybe someone has an un-built Heathkit TV kit sitting in a garage somewhere. When a friend of ours built one it was the first time I'd seen a remote on a TV.
 
Health Kits were neat. Right now I am listening to the radio driven by a KOSS Acoustech pre and power amp kit and KLH speakers I got in 1968, and I still have my crystal radio from when I was a kid, but the safety pin broke, and I have yet to get around to fixing it.

Anyone remember when Radio Shake actually sold more electronic components then finished products?

I also long for the days spent in the garage, illegally transmitting with my ARC-5 transmitters and the smell of ozone and whine from the dynamotors.

Youth, so long ago...
 
Gee, Tom... REALLY?!?! :devilgrin:

We boomers lived in the best of all possible times this place (planet) will ever see. Economically and technologically. I'd hate to be eighteen about now. :shocked:
 
DrEntropy said:
Gee, Tom... REALLY?!?! :devilgrin:

We boomers lived in the best of all possible times this place (planet) will ever see. Economically and technologically. I'd hate to be eighteen about now. :shocked:
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I agree completely Doc. I also like to think I made the most of the time while I was 18. But to be 18 again for a few minutes from time to time might not be all bad! :banana:
 
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"me neither". :shocked:
 
"I think many of us don't fit today's world real well."

I resemble those sentiments.
 
Interesting that Scott mentioned Heathkit TVs.

Back around 1969 or 70, I built one of these for my parents. I was in school at the time, Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the U of PA. Couldn't get the thing to work to save my life--it was clear that the horizontal oscillator wouldn't start, so the screen was dark. I decided to borrow some test equipment from school to check it out. When I got home with the test stuff, I turned on the TV to warm it up (tubes, you know!) and it started up just fine. Bright screen, real picture. I finished the alignment and it never failed after that. I wish my TR4 were that reliable.

I'm still convinced that it saw me coming with the test equipment, realized that the jig was up, and figured that it may as well start working. Those things were ALIVE!!!!
 
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