My father worked for a guy that sold radio equipment. He had a pretty tall tower next to his shop so when television was first coming out he got into that too. He had a television in the window of his shop and could pick up TV signals from 140 miles away. He would leave the tv on at night, people would park in front of his shop and sit in their cars watching the tv. When I was growing up the relatively small city near our town had 2 tv stations and we could also pick up a 3rd station from the nearby state. Since my father was friends with the tv/radio guy we were one of the first in the area with a color tv. Once delivered to your house they required some setup and calibration to get all of the electron guns aimed properly. At some point we had a tv with remote control. I think the remote sent out a sound signal and the tv would rotate the tuning knob clunk,clunk,clunk to get to the next channel.
How old are you?
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I've never seen a clunky remote. That sounds awesome.
We grew up in Bellingham, WA near the Canadian border. With rabbit ears, we got all the Vancouver, BC channels including lots of hockey, The Beachcombers, The Friendly Giant, and Curling back when they had the broomsticks (which weren't ergonomic but made an awesome sound).
Eventually, we got cable with 13 channels. Then we moved to the country where we got a massive antenna that needed to be rotated veryyyyyyy slowly. Next we got a massive satellite dish which required rotating the dish to jump from satellite to satellite. It worked mostly great until the networks started scrambling their signals.
44 here. Still feel like a kid. Glad to be healthy and still able to do pretty much anything I want.
I happened to be home sick, was watching around noon just for something to do, when the bulletin interrupted the regular program. I ran to Mom and told her the president had been shot. She didn't believe me until she went to the living room and saw Walter Cronkite at a time he shouldn't have been there. For an 8-year-old it was pretty traumatic (He's the president, you can't shoot a president!
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You know you're old if you remember Preparation A.
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you probably remember Mr. Dressup too!
I remember the clunks. We had a Packard Bell color TV that the repairman retrofitted to remote. I think the clunks came from the motor he put in to turn the channel selector. Everything was mechanical/analog back then.
Logical. I notice the same with amateur astronomy, though hopefully outreach to younger folks plants seeds. (My scout troop had a "rocketry campout at FAR" and I do local "astronomy evenings" for scouts working on the merit badge). Money can surely be a barrier though low power kits and binoculars offer an entry level.
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It is bc most of us got the bug when we were kids in the hay day of rockets and NASA and going to the moon. I think we are in a new hay day today with Artemis and SpaceX and talk of return to the moon and on to Mars.
I hope the new heyday is true
I was 10 when Alan Shepard became America's first man in space.
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Well It looks like I’m in the 29%… and I already feel old when I remember DVDs…
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I’m going to add that I really don’t think that I would want more people my age in HPR and MPR I wouldn’t trust them not to kill anyone.
Ah, come to think of it, my uncle had one of these in the 70s. The clicking was from the remote and not the TV.
I forgot all about Mr. Dressup.
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Now that I've gotten older everything is starting to click for me.
My knees, my neck, my back.............
My knees, my neck, my back.............
!!!!!!!!!
I still have the second one in your pics, without the black tones. But it was a stereo, not tv console.
Stereo long kaput, have been using it as a table for many decades.
You should upgrade and put a modern receiver in it and a newer turntable, take the old speaker drivers and set some bookshelf speakers in the same area.
I was in elementary school when Kenned was shot. The class was watching something on TV. One of the other teachers came into the room crying and spoke to our teacher who started crying. We were all sent home. When I got home I saw the news on TV. I'll never forget that day. When I was in collage I went to a lecture about the assassination. The speaker was talking about the theory that it was more than one person shooting and that Oswald had nothing to do with it. We watched the Zapruder film many times. We were asked to put up flyers about the next lecture. I almost got arrested by the campus police for putting up the flyers. They told me to take them down. When I got older and began shooting more I realized that Kennedy wasn't just shot from the back. A bullet doesn't make a person fly back if shot from the back. To many of the facts we were told after he was killed just don't add up. Like the motorcycle cop who was looking at the grassy knoll.
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I will hit the big 65 on 27 January 
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8 C6-0, 12 D11-9, 20 D20-0, 20 E5-0, 3 Cinerocs
65... Interesting how many people said what they used to do or see...That was not the question...
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I was celebrating my 8th year birthday when the Apollo 1 fire happened.
All 3 crew members are forever etched in my memory
All 3 crew members are forever etched in my memory
Just turned 73. Have a little more trouble chasing rockets but still love it.
Old dudes rock! Maybe it's Elvis but it's still rock! Right?
Everybody talkin' bout the new sound funny but it's still Billy Joel to me. Dang, even Billy Joel is old skewl now.
Just give me my thick launch rods, B14s and butyrate dope.
Everybody talkin' bout the new sound funny but it's still Billy Joel to me. Dang, even Billy Joel is old skewl now.
Just give me my thick launch rods, B14s and butyrate dope.
I"ll be 54 in March. My children say I'm the oldest kid they know. I wish my body would agree.
My grandfather was a TV repairman (remember those?) when I was a kid. Up until the mid 80's all of our family televisions were "home made" contraptions that only Gramps could get to work properly.
My grandfather was a TV repairman (remember those?) when I was a kid. Up until the mid 80's all of our family televisions were "home made" contraptions that only Gramps could get to work properly.
