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FERNSEH · 22nd Feb 2018, 6:38 pm

Hi Roger,
The LV30 is a truly excellent receiver. Your set must have an interesting history. I was expecting that the RF stages might have been retuned to the Paris 441 line transmitter, 42Mc/s sound and 46Mc/s vision but in fact it's an unaltered Alexandra Palace receiver.
Good news about the CRT, excellent brightness and focus.
I was never a great fan of the earlier Pye TV receivers such as the LV20 and B18 series and having acquired many years ago an LV30C, the set was put aside and it was only quite recently I decided to take a look at it. Well, it turns out the LV30 series are great little sets, my only criticism is the self oscillating line timebase which can be prone to frequency drift.
Congratulations on another superb restoration job.

DFWB.

22nd Feb 2018, 6:38 pm	#5
FERNSEH Dekatron Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 7,444	Re: Restoration of my Pye LV30 Hi Roger, The LV30 is a truly excellent receiver. Your set must have an interesting history. I was expecting that the RF stages might have been retuned to the Paris 441 line transmitter, 42Mc/s sound and 46Mc/s vision but in fact it's an unaltered Alexandra Palace receiver. Good news about the CRT, excellent brightness and focus. I was never a great fan of the earlier Pye TV receivers such as the LV20 and B18 series and having acquired many years ago an LV30C, the set was put aside and it was only quite recently I decided to take a look at it. Well, it turns out the LV30 series are great little sets, my only criticism is the self oscillating line timebase which can be prone to frequency drift. Congratulations on another superb restoration job. DFWB.