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Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
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Rare to find these days are Ferranti product brochures. I've just added
Hope you find them as interesting to see as I did. If anyone out there has any Ferranti colour TV examples I would dearly like to add them. All I have is a sales sign for a CT1166 for the CTV brochure section.
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The similarities to the Ekco models is very easy to see, we had both dealerships, apart from trim it made repairs and spares simpler.
Ferranti tended to use Philips rotary tuners whereas Ekco used more push button types, although those leaflets show Ferranti with push buttons as well.
One thing I learned very quickly was don’t put the sets with Philips VHF tuners face down with the weight on the tuner knob, always support the cabinet. Failure to do that usually resulted in a faulty tuner, the more robust rotary tuners used in the Ekco sets didn’t suffer that problem although good practice was still to support the cabinet so no weight was on the knobs.
Frank
When i started in the trade in 1970 i serviced loads of the 1123/1125. Pye 11u chassis, poor on UHF.
Yes the 11u was one of the earlier chassis, two versions, later versions had much more gain but still hobbled by the valve UHF tuner. I had the later version as my home TV, with a strong signal, which we had, the performance was very good. We used it on UHF only from 1970.
The best valve UHF tuners were made by Philips, not as sensitive as a good transistor tuner but better than most.
I haven’t got the circuit to hand but think the later version 11u used Frame Grid valve in the last IF, earlier versions used a PCF80, later versions also seperate gain controls for each standard which also helped get the balance correct.
Not until the first transistor UHF tuners arrived that the noise performance of UHF became usable in weaker signal areas. Theses started to appear in 1965 with some makers getting to grips with the technology better than others.
Frank
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