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Old 15th Dec 2019, 9:55 pm   #1
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hi.
i recently seen a pye tv for sale and have uploaded photos it is a pye panorama , i would like info on this model please, the asking price is €100 and would it be worth that price,
also is it expensive to convert for digital tv even though it's B&W
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Old 15th Dec 2019, 10:05 pm   #2
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Default Re: pye tv information please

See: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...62#post1199262

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Old 15th Dec 2019, 10:18 pm   #3
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The channel selector knob in the 3rd photo is labelled from A to H I think,these are the Irish 625 line VHF channels.
Would need a VHF system I modulator and a suitable signal source.
Member Linescan87, Onjoj on YouTube will probably know about this set, he's restored various TV's used in Ireland.
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Old 15th Dec 2019, 10:53 pm   #4
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Default Re: pye tv information please

Not an expert on Irish sets but they did use 405 as well, that looks like a single standard 405 line to me. Only one line hold control suggests this so a standards converter would be required and a set of that age will I suspect going to require some work to get it working reliably

Lovely piece on the Irish 405/625 switchover here.

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Edit. Just seen john Joe's post so no converter required, just a VHF modulator. Said I wasn't an expert ;-)

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Old 15th Dec 2019, 11:01 pm   #5
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Default Re: pye tv information please

Hows it going?

I actually have one of these, waiting patiently for it's turn on the bench(unlikely to be anytime soon).

As Mr. Hoover correctly states, it is 625 line VHF so will indeed require a VHF modulator.

Now to the price, I wouldn't pay that but then I've got more TV's, radios and other stuff than common sense!! However, vintage TV's are much thinner on the ground here than in the UK, for obvious reasons (population size and early adoption of television)

Be prepared for CRT and lopt problems. All in all, if you have €100 to spare and you don't mind taking a gamble, go for it.
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Old 15th Dec 2019, 11:17 pm   #6
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Hi Joe,
do you service vintage record players and tvs, if so can you send me your contact details please?
also many thanks to all of the advice given
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Old 16th Dec 2019, 1:40 am   #7
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As has been said this is a VHF single standard 625 line system ‘I’ set so a VHF system ‘I’ modulator will be required - readily available on ebay - many are VHF/UHF and multi system - some are of reasonable quality - others not so much

These VHF single standard 625 line sets were mainly deployed in the parts of Ireland that were out of range of British 405 line services ie most of the country - no Irish 405 line services were ever available in these areas , a skeleton 405 line service was provided in the areas where significant numbers of 405 line sets were already in use receiving British 405 line overspill

€100 is not too unreasonable for a working example but a bit on the steep side for an ‘untested’ set

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Old 16th Dec 2019, 3:28 pm   #8
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Did Pye have a factory in
Ireland where these were
made(like Bush) or did
they come from the English
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Diddnt Pye have a TV factory in Shannon?
Also another factory in Dundrum making radios and maybe Tvs ?
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Old 16th Dec 2019, 4:36 pm   #10
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Channel selector knobs are from Ekco.

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Old 16th Dec 2019, 8:15 pm   #11
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Channel selector knobs are from Ekco.
I noticed that too David, the original must have been smaller, as the present one covers part of the escutcheon.

Quite a compact looking set, I wonder if it is similar to my Pam 600F?

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Old 16th Dec 2019, 9:06 pm   #12
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Hi Lads, my one has the same knobs for the tuner. You see some strange stuff on Irish Pye TV's, I have a dual standard that has variac tuning on UHF with just an ordinary pot, no reduction or dial!
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Old 17th Dec 2019, 3:25 am   #13
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Diddnt Pye have a TV factory in Shannon?
Also another factory in Dundrum making radios and maybe Tvs ?
TVs were definitely made in Dundrum Factory - I was not aware of a Shannon facility
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Old 17th Dec 2019, 9:56 am   #14
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Varicap tuning, surely, rather than Variac!
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Old 17th Dec 2019, 12:50 pm   #15
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Ofcourse, a slip of the auto correct!
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