"Juan" wrote in message
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I picked this up with some other junk at a yard sale. Can anyone ID it?

I put pics of it on my hosting site.

http://radact.mysite.com/sale_page.html



It's a signal generator, with crystal markers for calibration, to be used
for alignment of television RF and IF stages.

I picked this up with some other junk at a yard sale. Can anyone ID it?

I put pics of it on my hosting site.

http://radact.mysite.com/sale_page.html

It's a signal generator, with crystal markers for calibration, to be used
for alignment of television RF and IF stages.

Museum piece or movie prop.

Could be used for aligning OLD B&W TVs, and radios.

And-- will be more or less USELESS, after Feburary, of next year
(when NTSC television more or less becomes history, thanks to
Digital TV. Jim NN7K


JB wrote:
I picked this up with some other junk at a yard sale. Can anyone ID it?

I put pics of it on my hosting site.

http://radact.mysite.com/sale_page.html

It's a signal generator, with crystal markers for calibration, to be used
for alignment of television RF and IF stages.

Museum piece or movie prop.

Could be used for aligning OLD B&W TVs, and radios.

"Jim-NN7K" . wrote in message
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And-- will be more or less USELESS, after Feburary, of next year
(when NTSC television more or less becomes history, thanks to
Digital TV. Jim NN7K

Will still be tens of millions of analog televisions in use.

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Jim-NN7K" . wrote in message
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And-- will be more or less USELESS, after Feburary, of next year
(when NTSC television more or less becomes history, thanks to
Digital TV. Jim NN7K

Will still be tens of millions of analog televisions in use.



I see a big market for used NTSC TV's going to hurricane ravaged places
like Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica.

--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P

Yeh, but ONLY with a converter (unless you get service from Translator,
or Cable) On the air NTSC ceases around middle of feburary!

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Jim-NN7K" . wrote in message
...
And-- will be more or less USELESS, after Feburary, of next year
(when NTSC television more or less becomes history, thanks to
Digital TV. Jim NN7K

Will still be tens of millions of analog televisions in use.

"Jim-NN7K" . wrote in message
...
Yeh, but ONLY with a converter (unless you get service from Translator,
or Cable) On the air NTSC ceases around middle of feburary!

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Jim-NN7K" . wrote in message
...
And-- will be more or less USELESS, after Feburary, of next year
(when NTSC television more or less becomes history, thanks to
Digital TV. Jim NN7K

Will still be tens of millions of analog televisions in use.

Be that as it may, most TVs made since the 80's don't even need to be
aligned in the RF and IF stages. You can still use a converter box on your
old RCA 630-ts.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"Juan" wrote in message
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I picked this up with some other junk at a yard sale. Can anyone ID it?

I put pics of it on my hosting site.

http://radact.mysite.com/sale_page.html



It's a signal generator, with crystal markers for calibration, to be used
for alignment of television RF and IF stages.


Thanks much Brenda. Your answer was very professional. Just like a tech
would answer.

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http://radact.mysite.com/sale_page.html



It's a signal generator, with crystal markers for calibration, to be
used
for alignment of television RF and IF stages.


Thanks much Brenda. Your answer was very professional. Just like a tech
would answer.

Where should she send the bill?

I would qualify the above with the word "vintage" in your sales brochure.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/VINTAGE-RCA-TELEV... QcmdZViewItem

RF and IF alignments and mechanical tuners were rendered obsolete by
monolithic filters and synthesized tuning. Convergence alignments are the
last true skill of the purist, but largely neglected by manufacturers as few
consumers are purists.

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:27:28 GMT, "JB" wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/VINTAGE-RCA-TELEV... QcmdZViewItem

.... Convergence alignments are the last true skill of the purist, but largely neglected by manufacturers as few
consumers are purists.

But this generator doesn't offer gun control. Anyway, convergence alignment is
very simple -- at RCA, we fully automated the procedure in 1978.

-- Tom