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Originally Posted by 3Guncolor
I have a Zenith roundie in storage at the the headend I supervise. Every few months I get it out and plug it in and run it for an hour or two. Today right after I got it out we started to have problems with some of the Viacom chanels (M-TV, VH-1 Nick etc) we did not have any test monitors close by at the time and since I was there with one of my staff members I thought why not use it. He was going for one of the test carts because master control was at the other end of the building and by the time he made it back the old Zenith was fired up.
We used the set to check the channels while we had Viacom on the phone.
The problem was at the uplink end but we get the blame anyway. Someday when I get a real office I hope to have it in there on display. We had a camera so I took a few pictures with it next to the receivers. It is showing Gun Smoke from TV Land just like a roundie should. I took the back off to show my employee that it really was full of glowing tubes.
Steve
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This is slightly off topic of your thread, but it is at least another fact that will surprise some of the people who are vacuum-tube nonbelievers in the "old technology to the rescue" topic...
I was told by a heavily-degreed engineer that in the event of a nuclear disaster, no silicon device will function (i.e Transistors, diodes, or IC chips). So with that as a given, the only means of communication will be all-tube equipment! If you maintain your Zenith, and a REALLY BIG antenna, you might be the only citizen connected with the outside world for news and instructions. If you're not so fortunate, I'll come rescue you with a computerless, ignitionless Toyota Diesel (one of the few vehicles capable of running in a nuclear disaster), and will drive you to the home of an all-tube Ham Radio operator
Charles