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Old 13th Oct 2012, 8:44 am   #28
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Default Re: Earliest BBC2 Sets?

It may well have a plate or the fixing holes where one had been. It may have been removed if the receiver had done a moonlight flit complete with it's viewer....

I can remember realigning the sound stages on the Pye 700D when BBC2 first came alive in 1964. I was just 16 at the time. The service data for 1962 shows the sound aligned to 6mc/s so I guess this was soon changed.

The UHF performance was also downgraded because the I.F. output from the UHF tuner was connected directly to the I.F. panel instead of being amplified by the mixer valve in the VHF tuner, as was later practise. The VHF tuner employed in the 700D was the miniature incremental type manuafctured by Pye from around 1958 and did not have provision for I.F. injection from a UHF tuner. I had a lot of these receivers through my hands and it's plastic pig the model 1. J.

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