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I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there.
Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:03:06 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Graham. wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:03:06 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s. -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 |
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charles wrote:
In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s. Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace. Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'. Bill |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: charles wrote: In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s. Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace. Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'. Bill And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit & veg. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: charles wrote: snip And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was only in fruit & veg. Try getting her to move to frozen foods, might get a better reflected signal off the freezers? Steve Terry -- Get a free GiffGaff PAYG Sim and £5 bonus after activation at: http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/gfourwwk |
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In message , Graham.
writes On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: charles wrote: In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s. Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace. Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'. Bill And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit & veg. You just prolly had problems pearing -- geoff |
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On 07/11/2012 20:25, Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: charles wrote: In the summer of 1953, someone from London with a new holiday home in Arisaig fitted a Band 1 aerial. tv arrived (on uhf) some time in the 80s. Presumably it was for channel 1, Crystal/Alex Palace. Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'. Bill And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit & veg. Should have tried the toothpaste aisle... -- Rod |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:25:11 +0000, Graham.
wrote: And mobile phones are rubbish, I was at the checkouts in Tescos and tried to ring SWMBO, it said no signal, but she was onlt in fruit & veg. You could have got through on the banana. |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:58:40 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: Years ago I had a customer who had lived in Aberdeen and had retired to Yorkshire, where he lived in a terrible reception area. He refused to believe that there could be a reception problem on the grounds that 'this is near London'. A few years ago, not long after I had discovered this group, friends bought and restored a cottage in Wales, on the border west of Shrewsbury. I called in just after they had finished, when he said the TV signal was crap, he had installed the aerial from his old house. Find out what you need for this area, I told him, one that works for Waltham won't work here. |
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Graham. wrote:
In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial. Bill |
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: Graham. wrote: In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial. Bill In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV. Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was subjectively better on 405 anyway. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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In message , Graham.
writes On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Graham. wrote: In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial. Bill In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV. Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was subjectively better on 405 anyway. In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the 625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line pictures had far better sharpness and contrast. -- Ian |
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SOn Wed, 7 Nov 2012 22:37:30 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote: In message , Graham. writes On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Graham. wrote: In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial. Bill In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV. Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was subjectively better on 405 anyway. In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the 625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line pictures had far better sharpness and contrast. So much so that I took some 35mm shots of the Apollo 11 mission off the screen of our 23in dual-standard Bush on 405, when the same programme was also available on 625. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 10:37:52 PM UTC, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Graham. writes On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:54:56 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Graham. wrote: In about 1982 a brand new shiny Band III aerial went up on my patch. I remember thinking how short-sighted that was. I did some freebies for a charity and often they had installed a 405 only set in the recipient's house, and I had to do the aerial. Bill In the '70s if the customer had a UHF aerial they often left the rotary tuner set to BBC2 and used VHF/405 for BBC1/ITV. Set design on 625 was so crap that in many cases the picture was subjectively better on 405 anyway. In the 1960s, I had a Ferguson 3000 (?) black and white set, and the 625-line picture was sort-of 'soft' and rather fuzzy. The 405-line pictures had far better sharpness and contrast. -- Ian Up in't Tyne-Tees area 625 arrived very late. Folk who had bought UHF sets in anticipation often found the valves in the UHF tuner had poisoned cathodes due to years of lack of use and the picture was pretty dire when they wanted it. When I were a lad, there was an unofficial procedure for running the heaters at 120% voltage and putting HT onto all electrodes (except cathode and 1st grid) for a minute to burn the gunge off the cathode. The kids today wouldn't believe this. rusty. |
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill How much?!? www.aerialsandtv.com just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year. |
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R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill How much?!? www.aerialsandtv.com just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year. These are brand new large high gain grouped aerials, not 18 element aerials. Bill |
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In article , R. Mark Clayton
scribeth thus "Bill Wright" wrote in message ... I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill How much?!? www.aerialsandtv.com just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year. Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a few bob?... -- Tony Sayer |
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On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:01:59 +0000, Huge wrote:
Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a few bob?... Yep. A few bob. 25p. That's more like several millibob, surely? |
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Huge wrote:
On 2012-11-08, Jules Richardson wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:01:59 +0000, Huge wrote: Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a few bob?... Yep. A few bob. 25p. That's more like several millibob, surely? 1 bob = 5 p. Purchasing power of 5P now is less than the 1d at decimalisation. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:35:27 +0000, John Williamson
wrote: Huge wrote: On 2012-11-08, Jules Richardson wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:01:59 +0000, Huge wrote: Yeabut these are somewhat "historic" and new boxed, got to be worth a few bob?... Yep. A few bob. 25p. That's more like several millibob, surely? 1 bob = 5 p. Purchasing power of 5P now is less than the 1d at decimalisation. Have you got a verifiable source for that info? -- |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:28:46 -0000, "R. Mark Clayton"
wrote: "Bill Wright" wrote in message ... I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill How much?!? www.aerialsandtv.com just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year. Leave it out Rodney, these come with a written Provence. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... I'm clearing my dad's house and there a quite a few TV aerials there. Ignoring the rubbish, there are some boxed high gain types. These are from the Antiference XG range and the Jaybeam MBM range. All the aerials are grouped. There are also some TC18As. Some of these aerials are from the 1980s but they are still in the original boxes. Some of the boxes are battered, but the contents are OK. These are the high gain aerials of choice if you want a grouped aerial. They knock the spots off wideband models. I was thinking that maybe £15 to £25 would be fair for each aerial, depending on type. If anyone's interested I'll go and note down the exact types and groups. It would have to be buyer collect though. These things would take a lot of parcelling up. If anyone wants to take the lot I would accept maybe £15 per aerial. Bill How much?!? www.aerialsandtv.com just up the road from you will do a brand new 18 element aerial for £26 - we bought one this year. Have you ever seen a Jaybeam MBM88? I used to use one on 70Cm Amateur radio, it must have been 15 foot long! and I think it had a genuine 22dbi gain A group "A" must be over 10 feet long. Serious serious aerial i can't think of none better, except 4 of them stacked (which is what EME users favour on 70Cm) Steve Terry -- Get a free GiffGaff PAYG Sim and £5 bonus after activation at: http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/gfourwwk |
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Steve Terry wrote:
A group "A" must be over 10 feet long. Serious serious aerial i can't think of none better, except 4 of them stacked (which is what EME users favour on 70Cm) There used to be a WMC in Rotherham that had four stacked MBM46s. It was the wonder of the age. Here's an XG21 http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/aerialp...dern/031.shtml Here's four stacked high gain aerials: http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/aerialp...ngus/022.shtml Bill |
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