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Old 28th Oct 2020, 5:16 pm   #1
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Default Pye CW17

Greetings,

After several years of mainly "lurking" on this forum I am now the proud owner of a Pye CW17-S. I also have an Aurora 405-line converter.

I admit that I was seduced by the esthetics of the Pye set. It is a design from Robin Day, not the TV personality but the designer. I have some experience restoring 1950s valve equipment -- mainly test gear such as signal generators and VTVMs. Plus have built homebrew ham gear with valve designs from that era.

On the plus side, the set I have purchased has raster (judging from the seller's photos) and is cosmetically in brilliant shape. On the minus side, because of its location, although I have purchased the set I cannot pick it up until Covid restrictions ease off. I am (perhaps optimistically) targeting early next year for the pickup, and the seller has agreed.

Meanwhile, I will track down the schematic and service information. Any advice would be most welcome. I have read several books about the 405-line system and servicing sets from this era, and did in fact coax a couple of these 1950s sets back to life ... as a teen-ager in the 1970s. One of them was a Pye. Otherwise I am a neophyte in these matters.

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