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Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna...
First aired, 26 November 1962. Antenna? Wineguard?..
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I never saw a Winegard like that!
BTW, where's the transmission line? |
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I have seen a Winegard like that, the Powertron P-55 or without the amp, Colortron C-42. My grandma got one out up after the 1971 Chromacolor was delivered. The model was made for decades as a workhorse where 3 or more VHF channels in the same direction made a broadband VHF necessary.
In most areas from 30 out to 55 miles, this antenna with a 5-foot boom tended to perform as well fringe-rated log-periodics twice that size and compared without the amp! JFD, Jerrold and Channel Master did not have a smaller budget model that would work like that in a standard fringe location. Of course, if directivity and ghost rejection was criteria, the biggest antenna is the best. In the 80s and 90s, the VHF-UHF chromstar line was a huge seller but a variation of this little wonder was still available in "TV man" line and I have one of those. Gone are the "W"s punched out in the rear driven element bracket you see. That was 1962 and what I like about your pictures is the three-phase high tension lines and cross-arms look awful close, probably to embellish the folly of Lucy on a roof, though its clearly on a movie set Winegard ad 1962.pdf
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A couple antenna pictures here, I took just the other day. Each antenna, I have seen for many, many years, but finally took the time to take pictures, especially since the tower on top of the Sears store, which closed a few years ago, who knows when all will be torn down. I'm always looking for classic antennas! I wish I had one, like the folded dipole with reflector, which looks like it's mounted on the power pole, but actually next to it.
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I was playing around with it in 2005-06 trying to recieve analog UHF, this was my millionth attempt at having UHF at home. I could get a few stations one really clear a few miles away at a roadside lookout with a pocket tv, but I never did pick anything up at home. To many mountains and trees where I live and they completely kill UHF signals. God I sure miss analog.... |
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Anyone remember these cheezy peices of crap?
Seems like everwhere I went someone had one stuffed in the closet amongst a bunch of junk. Circa 1995 every garage sale had one. The two controls consisted of a dish rotator , and a tuning control which all it did was cut off one of connections to the rabbit ears . The important looking plastic things on the dipoles were just that, important hollow plastic shells. Rabbit ears in sheeps clothing, Sucker bait at it's finest....? |
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This one sold at the WARCI donation auction for I think $2 or $3 in July.
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I think the Archers actually had a rf amp in them if I recall...
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"Dish" was an outrageous design using a dipole for UHF, stoking a delusion among the band-illiterate. Only good in Metro areas and I bet it was not patented either.
"Archer" Antenna: The plastic things on the VHF dipoles were so that you could adjust them without making electrical contact and skewing results of aiming-spreading. The one knob rotated both loop and monopoles, other knob performed the "hocus-pocus" of impedance-matching combinations. The plastic ring on the UHF loop added a director and reflector element that was just chromed plastic. I never did understand why a bowtie and reflector was not used on these set-tops instead. Loops had one advantage, not limited to horizontal polarization. The best set-top UHF antenna I ever used was that RS $4.99 set-top two-bay bowtie. These may have been the last of the indoor antennas that used a switch to alter connections between the elements and have separate UHF and VHF leads.
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In the early days of digital, the Radio Shack dual bowtie was one of the best non-amplified indoor UHF antennas we tried at Zenith. The other was the "Silver Sensor" log-periodic.
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I've one of those "dish" jobs on my Motorola in the bedroom, using 90s-00s era rabbit ears for the CTC21 and BT modulator, and a standard Philips branded VHF/UHF combo yagi I bought for $25 back in '06. I took it with me when I moved out of my parents in '08. It beats anything you can buy at a big box store for DTV reception. A local hardware store still has the same one (though RCA branded) and they want over $100 for it! I'm only 35 mile outside ABQ, bit we have always needed good outdoor antennas for decent reception.
My great grandparents in Douglas, AZ had a big tower for my great grandpa's HF rig, but also mounted a really big Winegard aimed at Tucson up there. Next time I go down, I'll see if its still there and take pictures. |
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