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Old 02-02-2016, 09:03 PM
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Possible could be a radio antenna, Tom, I suspect its TV, though, It looks newer, if it was original to the house they would have lined up up with the power outlet 6 inches away from it., has a 50's or 60s style wall plate, 2 slots, almost the same size as a 2 prong power socket, but set vertically in the middle of the plate. Its a bit odd, doesn't match other antenna outlets I've seen.
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Old 02-10-2016, 10:06 PM
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Possible could be a radio antenna, Tom, I suspect its TV, though, It looks newer, if it was original to the house they would have lined up up with the power outlet 6 inches away from it., has a 50's or 60s style wall plate, 2 slots, almost the same size as a 2 prong power socket, but set vertically in the middle of the plate. Its a bit odd, doesn't match other antenna outlets I've seen.
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Old 02-20-2016, 03:28 PM
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I picked up this UHF antenna at an estate sale today. I don't know the age but guessing by all the other items in the house it probably is from around 1950-1970. Any ideas?

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Old 02-20-2016, 10:22 PM
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I picked up this UHF antenna at an estate sale today. I don't know the age but guessing by all the other items in the house it probably is from around 1950-1970. Any ideas?
Radio Shack 15-1629

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1974/h083.html

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Old 08-04-2019, 12:47 PM
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Lol, I have that UHF antenna thats in that radio shack ad for 15.95
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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Old 08-04-2019, 02:27 PM
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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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Old 08-04-2019, 03:03 PM
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This one sold at the WARCI donation auction for I think $2 or $3 in July.



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