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CTV Mystery MultiBroadcast Thorn 9600

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Last Post by AndiiT 6 months ago

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crustytv

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I have a habit of collecting early Thorn remote controls, this often leading onto me to finding the TV it goes with. Having said that, no such luck yet with the 9904. This week I picked up another Thorn Ultrasonic offering, a T708 and amazingly in my August 1978 TV Times, there is an advert for the exact TV it goes with, another on my list to find.

OK Thorn aficionados, is this as suspected a 9600 series, what is the model, and was it really exclusive to MultiBroadcast, thus no Fergy branded ones? Quite interesting to see ultrasonic still in use in 78, and with features starting to emerge such as channel ident and clock.

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Posted : 21/06/2024 11:11 am

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Jayceebee

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The remote is very familiar, used on several 9600 chassis sets and even on one luxury 8800 model x769, haven'tt seen that particular set before although by then Multibroadcast had rebranded to Vista in this neck of the woods so not surprised. Not aware of any Ferguson equivalent, the Ferguson 3782 and other models did use a similar remote. Those ultrasonic remotes can actually be heard if working correctly, they emit a quite pleasant tone. Unlike previous ultrasonics they weren't affected by budgies, jangling keys etc. If my memory is correct an ITT SAA1024 IC in the hand set and an SAA1025 in the receiver.

John.

Posted : 21/06/2024 4:46 pm

AndiiT

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At a guess, I would say that it is an MB exclusive, the closest that I ever came to the model would be the DER equivalent which did indeed use the Thorn 9600 chassis, however was fitted with a Texas TIFAX teletext decoder which suffered terribly from text dropout unless the incoming UHF signal was nigh on perfect.
One thing I'll always remember about the DER set was the failure of the ultrasonic receiver insert, I think they were of carbon granule design, so used to go "deaf" at the first sign of moisture.
The remote control is certainly reminiscent of the DER text model, although it had more buttons, of course.

Posted : 22/06/2024 7:44 pm

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