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OUR FIRST TELEVISION SET
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This is a 1952 photo of our family's first TV set. It is an RCA console (model unknown) with AM/FM tuner 78 RPM record changer under lid above the radio. My brother Bob (2 years old) is at the controls. My other brother Tony and Sister Kathy are in the foreground. I remember most, watching the Howdy Doody show with Buffalo Bob Smith. I also remember the set as did many of the sets of that vintage, had a pilot light mounted in the bottom in the center. It seemed that once it blew out, no one ever replaced it again. Sometimes, the bulb socket would pop out and hang down to the floor from its wires. |
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HUGE TUBE FROM A MEXICAN"BORDER BLASTER" Mexican Border Blasters are radio stations, which broadcast on the standard AM band, but are located in Mexico. These stations run powers, much higher than the 50KW maximum allowable power in the U.S. This is not a discussion of these stations, but a display of a tube which was used in such a station. This particular tube is displayed at Continental Electronics in Dallas and explained by David Hershberger, Principal Engineer of Continental Electronics. Also, check out David's PHASITRON vacuum tube web page. |
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TV and FM Transmitter World Photos of TV transmitters and tower erection in 2 stations in Arizona, kindly supplied by transmitter engineer, Gary Kabrick, a Western Electric Brochure LOGO and 10KW FM Transmitter from 40s, a 3D and VRML rendering of a circular polarized FM antenna component, Edwin H. Armstrong's experimental FM laboratory and tower. |
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