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19th Dec 2018, 1:48 am | #1 |
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HMV 1871 Television.
I was thinking about the HMV 1871 we got in 1959 or 1960
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hismasters_hmv_1871.html The clear acrylic channel knob on the Fireball tuner had a multi-colour filter, and pilot lamp, and lit the selected channel in either red, amber or green. As I remember, most, if not all the Band I channels were green and most Band III channels were red, but there were some orange, I think four in total but split into two pairs. So what, if anything, was the significance of the orange channels?
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28th Dec 2018, 2:30 pm | #2 |
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Re: HMV 1871 Television.
I think it was done more for effect than any real purpose. The HMV 1870 series [Ferguson 400 series] and the 1890 series [Ferguson 500 series] both had the same fragile knob!
The usual Band 1 channels were 1-5 and the Band 3 channels commonly used were 8-11. Maybe at that time the 'orange' channels had not been allocated. Just a guess. I remember this series very well. John. |