My new years resolution is to get these sets i have sitting here up and running . Lately i been buying more then i repair .

Get a bigger shop to start a collection.

I just need to fix more of the sets that I already have. At this point the only set that I don't have that I'd really like to find is a Zenith porthole.

What is the mod? Would this be something I may be interested in for my 7vt5ra?

Yep, me too. The portholes just don't ever come my way, last one I couldn't afford when it came up. Hopefully this year though.....

1. get rid of excess clutter
2. find a zenith roundie
3. find a remote-control roundie of some kind.
4. Try to find a late 60s zenith or admiral color portable
5. Dig out old sets and try to get them working.
6. Find excess sets a home.

I have a mid 80's Mitsubishi and I'd like to go HD sometime next year.....

Since I essentially have no life outside of work, I will continue to go to estate sales assuming that my work life doesn't consume a weekend. Estate sale saturdays are my only chance to actually be out and about durring the week, so its enjoyable just for that.

My resolution, is really to change my mindset of "more is better" into "just a few" and sell off some TV's.

Back when I moved to the new house here in '04, I had the huge collection of TV's at the old place (you guys might remember how my old basement looked with the orange tiles). Well, when the house went up on the market, the realtor said that all the TV's had to go or else it would scare off potential buyers (thinking that I was some kind of nut job). They were dead serious too. Well, long story short, I put all my TV's except for my absolute favorites in storage. I had only 4 TV's in my basement at that time, I can't tell you how good it made me feel. I appriciated those four mint perfect TV's so much when they were the only ones around. Id like to be able to be this way in a perfect world though, but I don't think I can make it happen. Ive spent too many hours finding and repairing these and I get attached.
Then I decided only to keep the best of the best. But then I started finding some really cool sets that were mint and you can't let those go. We all know that the window for finding these TV's gets smaller and smaller as time passes. So you end up accumulating so rapidly when all you do is spend your saturdays going to estate sales to find these TV's. You get buried when you keep finding "nice" TV's that you can't get rid of.

So will I resolve anything for new years? I doubt it, but it makes me feel good to think I might. Im realistic, so expect to see no changes for me in '09. Just the occasional ebay sell off.

My 2009 TV Goals...
 

My 2009 TV goals would be to find another 1950's color roundie-CTC-5 or even a CTC-4 from late 1955-56 or a CTC-5 Wingate-that's for color roundies-maybe in 2010 if not 2009. Well, for the other vintage TVs,
-any 1946-70's B&W set
-any 1960's-1980 color set
-any B&W roundie
I pretty much have to go out of town to find about 90% of my TVs with it being mostly other people's junk and cast-offs at yard sales-they are mostly a joke here with all that junk. I don't need other people's junk, I spend my time and money out of town and in the US to invest in great TV sets as described in this forum.

I guess for me I have no desire to get rid of my big collection of TV's including over 300 sets. I really have a lifetime of projects in the years to come in all those sets and have a sentimental attachment to each one. I actually have expanded my facilities over the years to accomodate more of my collection where I can actually have more of the sets hooked up and in use.
Sometime I would like to buy an entire office building or school building and have every single item in my collection restored and set up and operating (along with all of the organs, pianos, school buses, cars and trucks) and I will never give up on that dream.
For me I have found fewer and fewer tube type TV's over the years so the problem of accumulating more has limited itself somewhat. I have found a lot more old radios recently though.

I really have just focused on repairing my tube type radios and amplifiers and need to resolve to work on my round color sets. Getting the radios repaired has been easier just because they take less time.

My New Year's TV resolution is... 1920x1080. (-:

(Can I count my 1999-2000 RCA DTC-100 digital TV tuner as an "antique" yet? I could hook it up to my CTC-16 or CTC-5.)

I dont watch tv just music and AK chat :)

TV RESOLUTIONS FOR '09

1 - Put 82 and 84 RCA consoles, 86 CM console in storage in the garage
2 - Repair the '67 Zenith color console, or perhaps junk the beast
3 - Tweak the 63 blonde Zenith b/w console
4 - resolder, and this time, daisy chain a ground in the CTC 177 tuner
5 - purchase a new tv, for the 1st time since 1991, a 19 incher or so, a cheap lcd to hang on the kitchen wall - getting real tired of the daughter and girlfriend eating in the living room -
6 - get rid of the g** damned tv trays - see # 5 above
7 - find a "vintage" cart or stand for the 1977 CCII
8 - install an outdoor antenna
9 - get a FTA sattelite system
10 - add a few 1950's b/w or color consoles to the collection
11 - search for 3 sentimental sets, an RCA danish modern b/w console, an Admiral b/w low boy console, and a Truetone tabletop color set with its matching cart, all sets we had when I was growing up

resolutions
 

Come to think of it, I do have a resolution that will save me some greif at the estate sales. When people ask why i want the old TV, I WILL NOT tell them that I collect them. I will simply say I need it for a prop, or Im picking it up for a friend who needs it for parts. This way, I won't have to deal with all the eye rolling, the annoying puzzled looks not to mention smart a$$ comments that go along with it. You know what Im talking about! This will be my new effort to simplify things.

Screw 'em, Doug...When people give me the fish-eye over Why Would ANYONE In His Right Mind Wanna Collect THEM Old Things, I just give 'em my best Charlie Manson look & maybe drool a bit...Keep 'em guessin'...(grin)