Just thought i'd mention that the first television we had, around
1953 I guess it was, was a Hallicrafters. Around 21 inch B&W. It did
have VHF AND UHF tuners. We lived in Columbus Ga and there was one
UHF (28) and one VHF (4) station. Before that you could see some
station out of Atlanta Ga that was mostly snow... It was only on a
few hours in the afternoon and us kids would go to one of the few
houses that had a TV and all sit around the living room and watch
Howdy Doody and Roy Rogers/Gabby Hayes when the pix would come in
good enough to see anything. Otherwise we could hear the audio most
of the time. Man we thought we were UP TOWN. It was like a theater
with 8 or 10 of us sitting there on the floor trying to see these
first TV shows in our area. The house we went to was on top of a high
hill and they had one of those fancy antennas..ha ha remember the
stacked conical antennas, like a dipole with a reflector and
sometimes stacked from 2 to 6 together and they were always on top of
a telephone pole set in the yard. This was great television for us
kids as we had never seen anything like this before.
I tried to find a pix of the old tv but havent found that model yet.
I guess it was pretty fancy for the time and did have a large screen.
Local tv stayed on til about maybe 10 or 11 at night. After getting
out of the Navy (Electronics tech, Radar) I did work as a studio
engineer for one of these stations in the late 60's.
Jerry / W1NRA
