I've added a few pages about 1950s TV reception to my website. They are from
Practical Television and I'd like to thank Roger Bunner for digging them out of
his loft.

http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/01titlepage.htm

Bill

ROTFLOLPMP! Well done Janet.

Tell silly Roger, this is completely the wrong season for digging in
the loft. It's unlikely Practical Television mags will survive being dug
up just as they should be hibernating. He should heel them back in
straight away, preferably with a mulch of old curtains or broken tennis
rackets, and leave them to set seed. In Spring he will find the loft
full of a wonderful crop of chipped ornaments, glued shut paint tins,
and lonely shoes.

Janet


All good stuff!
If you think my plug for the website was off topic . . . well of course it was!
However I do remember early attempts to watch telly whilst camping. And camping
is like gardening, isn't it? I mean, they both happen outdoors.
Running the engine at full tilt so that the dynamo would almost keep up with
the power drawn by the rotary voltage converter that powered the telly. The
voltage converter was a 12V motor driving a 240V inverter! Erecting a massive
aerial in the Lake District just to watch Muffin the Mule! Take a look at
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/015Hil1972.htm
and
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/023Four...andIaerial.htm

Bill

Bill wrote:

Tell silly Roger, this is completely the wrong season for digging in
the loft. It's unlikely Practical Television mags will survive being dug
up just as they should be hibernating. He should heel them back in
straight away, preferably with a mulch of old curtains or broken tennis
rackets, and leave them to set seed. In Spring he will find the loft
full of a wonderful crop of chipped ornaments, glued shut paint tins,
and lonely shoes.

Janet


All good stuff!
If you think my plug for the website was off topic . . . well of course it
was! However I do remember early attempts to watch telly whilst camping.
And camping is like gardening, isn't it? I mean, they both happen
outdoors. Running the engine at full tilt so that the dynamo would almost
keep up with
the power drawn by the rotary voltage converter that powered the telly.
The voltage converter was a 12V motor driving a 240V inverter! Erecting a
massive aerial in the Lake District just to watch Muffin the Mule! Take a
look at http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/015Hil1972.htm
and
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/023Four...andIaerial.htm

Bill

I'm quite capable of creating my own tedium, so I won't take you up on your
offer. Thanks all the same.

--
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-- Matt Groening

The message
from Janet Baraclough.. contains
these words:

Tell silly Roger, this is completely the wrong season for digging in
the loft. It's unlikely Practical Television mags will survive being dug
up just as they should be hibernating. He should heel them back in
straight away, preferably with a mulch of old curtains or broken tennis
rackets, and leave them to set seed. In Spring he will find the loft
full of a wonderful crop of chipped ornaments, glued shut paint tins,
and lonely shoes.

And that sock...

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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from o (Bill) contains these words:

Running the engine at full tilt so that the dynamo would almost keep up with
the power drawn by the rotary voltage converter that powered the telly. The
voltage converter was a 12V motor driving a 240V inverter!

Not an inverter in this case, but an alternator. I have one which went
with a PA system for itinerant polly tishuns, and have kept it on the
premise that it'll come in handy one day, even if I never use it.

I also have two inverters, but they are purely electronic.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

But I think I've seen you around...aren't you that man who parks in busy
dual carriageway laybys to set up a little folding table and chairs for
a rural picnic?

Hey yes, that's me all right! Well isn't that fantastic you spotting us like
that! Did you see us playing with the frisby at the side of the A36 near Derby
the other week? That got quite a bit hairy at times, I can tell you!

Bill

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The message
from Janet Baraclough..
contains
these words:

Tell silly Roger, this is completely the wrong season for
digging in
the loft. It's unlikely Practical Television mags will survive
being dug
up just as they should be hibernating. He should heel them back
in
straight away, preferably with a mulch of old curtains or broken
tennis
rackets, and leave them to set seed. In Spring he will find the
loft
full of a wonderful crop of chipped ornaments, glued shut paint
tins,
and lonely shoes.

And that sock...

I've just found the sock I was looking for, in the fruit bowl
where we
keep hats.

Either the fruit bowl must be excessively large, or you are all
pin-heads. {:-))

Franz

Janet

The message
from Janet Baraclough.. contains
these words:
The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains
these words:
The message
from Janet Baraclough.. contains
these words:

Tell silly Roger, this is completely the wrong season for digging in
the loft. It's unlikely Practical Television mags will survive being dug
up just as they should be hibernating. He should heel them back in
straight away, preferably with a mulch of old curtains or broken tennis
rackets, and leave them to set seed. In Spring he will find the loft
full of a wonderful crop of chipped ornaments, glued shut paint tins,
and lonely shoes.

And that sock...

I've just found the sock I was looking for, in the fruit bowl where we
keep hats.

I still have half a dozen odd socks. Either I'll have to start a new
fashion, or hunt them down before the Government bans the activity.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/