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Locked Our first television

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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
 

Interesting story. I haven't a clue as to what was our first TV. I
know when I was in my early teens or just prior to that ~ 10 years old,
we had a Magnavox. Earlier than that, I don't think we could afford a
TV. Come to think of it, I don't remember watching TV at all in my
early youth. This would be 1950 to 1960. Hmmm. Maybe I was deprived
as a kid.

So, if you had a Hallicrafters and a TV to boot, you were as you say,
UP TOWN. Lucky guy.

K2WH
Jerry/W1NRA
 

Bill
That was the ONLY hallicrafter TV that I every saw! I do see several small screen earlier?models on the internet but never did see another one.
The UHF tuner did go out after a while and the only way they could be repaired in those days was to ADD a converter box on the top of the set. A bit after that time the local UHF station changed to chan 9 so it wasn't a problem.
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Jerry / W1NRA

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"I tried to find a pix of the old tv but havent found that model yet."

I don't know if you have it, but Chuck Dachis' book "Radios By
Hallicrafters" has many pictures of old hallicrafters TV's, many of
them the large console types. So, if you do not have the book, maybe
you should get yourself one. Even without the TV search, it is loaded
with alot of images and information about all Hallicrafters equipment.

K2WH
Jerry/W1NRA
 

Thanks Bill but it wouldn't be worth it for me to buy the book. I just tried to find it on the internet so i could post it in your photos section. Thanks for the info though.
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Jerry / W1NRA


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