"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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David wrote:

Yes renting was expensive but did take away the fear of repair bills.
My brother told me rental price was set to get the cost of the set back
in 9 months I recall.
Regards
David
Oh that wasn't renting, it was HP.


Yes, still alive that type of store in the form of Bright House.
Regards
David

Terry Casey wrote:

I'm sure Granada TV Rentals used the brand name Finlandia ...

Yes, though our one was made by Tandberg, in Norway. NRK Oslo have a VHF/UHF
B/G version of the very same TV on display in the corridor of their technical
block.

Last but one photo he-

http://picasaweb.google.com/10018199...fQqruT2KeKugE#


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Bill Wright wrote:
Ian Jackson wrote:

My 18" Sony 1810UB (bought in ~1975, and carefully chosen for
reliability) 'went wrong' four times in the first year. The first time
was only three weeks after I bought it. I believe it was one of the
first to be assembled in S Wales.

The Welsh ones were very poor. Several years into Sony's Welsh adventure
they produced a run of sets that were approx 10dB deafer than any other
set. Most places it didn't matter but many a time I had to fit a
masthead amp where otherwise I wouldn't have.

The factory was swamped by signal from Wenvoe ;-) I recall seeing the mast
visible from the car park on visits there.

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Andy Champ wrote:
On 21/01/2011 17:56, Rick wrote:
I'm pretty certain that the receivers were branded as ASA, manufactured
in Finland, surprising IMV, as weren't they then under the yoke of
Soviet rule?

Not IIRC. Last occupiers were Sweden, which is why there are lot of
signs in Swedish around Helsinki. Much easier to guess the meanings
than for Finnish which is ... different.

fx googles

OK we're both wrong. The czars had control of Finland 1890-1917. From
then on it was largely independent. Which leaves me wondering why the
heck the signs were in Swedish not Russian!

I've just returned from Helsinki actually. AIUI the south west of Finland has
a lot of affinity with Sweden, one of the chaps I was visiting grew up in that
region, he can speak Swedish, as well as he can English. (A Swedish colleague
tells me !). The other Finns can't understand Swedish, any more than I can
either language.

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Terry Casey wrote:
In article ,
says...

As they were being built specifically for export to the UK, they would
have been aligned to System I in the factory, surely.

No conversion necessary - though some minor component value changes may
have been needed in production.

Someone I worked with found a source of brand new Pye export sets for £20
each.

They only had VHF tuners (and the information on the back was printed in
English, French and Arabic!).

We drilled holes in the side of the cabinets for the UHF tuner and
realigned the sound IF to 6MHz without any problems.

Strangely enough, Pye jumped the gun with their first dual standard sets
and assumed we would use sytsem G. Those sets weren't so easy to realign
and, if anybody bothered, they had to replace the dust iron cores in the
sound IF transformers with brass ones to get them to tune high enough ...

Blimey! All very interesting!

Bill

I converted a 405 line set: jacked up the line oscillator, reversed the
demodulator diode, added a UHF tuner but I don't remember what I did about
sound. I remember watching my first Monty Python on it: 1968 - I would have
been 18.

Geoff Pearson wrote:

I converted a 405 line set: jacked up the line oscillator, reversed the
demodulator diode, added a UHF tuner but I don't remember what I did
about sound.

That would have been the clever bit ! 405 line sound was AM, 625 line sound is
FM




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Mark Carver wrote:
Geoff Pearson wrote:

I converted a 405 line set: jacked up the line oscillator, reversed
the demodulator diode, added a UHF tuner but I don't remember what I
did about sound.

That would have been the clever bit ! 405 line sound was AM, 625 line
sound is FM

What would happen at IF, since the audio was below rather than above the
video and a difference distance away?

Bill

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Geoff Pearson wrote:

I converted a 405 line set: jacked up the line oscillator, reversed the
demodulator diode, added a UHF tuner but I don't remember what I did
about sound.

That would have been the clever bit ! 405 line sound was AM, 625 line
sound is FM




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I know - but we used to do slope demodulation - kind of off tune so
frequency changes caused variation in amplitude. I remember the set well -
I painted it with aluminium paint and had the UHF tuner mounted near the
back on the top - the 14" set was near enough a cube. I can't think I built
a 6MHz sound IF strip.