Wacky old antennas

[pendulum]

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?

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by pendulum

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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[Tube TV]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

Radio Shack 15-1629

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

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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....

[Tube TV]

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....?

[WISCOJIM]

This one sold at the WARCI donation auction for I think $2 or $3 in July.



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[Tube TV]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

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...

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by Tube TV

I think the Archers actually had a rf amp in them if I recall...

Yes, this one did. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/radio_...preme_v_5.html

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