Old test patterns and Id slides thread...
 

Had a coworker. His father-in-law was a TVDX'er. He lent me some images...

Five more...
 

VHF local mid 1950's...

Last four...
 

Of the VHF local. Image file names include dates...

UHF local...
 

Five of about sixteen...

Five more...
 

Images taken in Woonsocket, RI...

First 3 of six..
 

After this three more. that will be the end to UHF local...

Last three...
 

You will notice the call letters WNET and WWOR were used first in New England. The last on on the right is what they transmitted before signing off...

Very g00d thread dues!!

More test patterns!!

I have over 40 ESkip catches coming up...

1950's VHF ESkip catches...
 

Received in Woonsocket Rhode Island...

5 More...
 

Don't forget to check the file names for more info...

Yet again, 5 more...
 

Still have a ways to go...

Still, 5 more...
 

One each from Canada and Cuba...

Wow thank you!!

Dont ya wish all those were still in analogue?

"Dont ya wish all those were still in analogue?"

Yes, In Massachusetts years ago I once saw Canada and Cuba on ESkip. Then I saw the Maritimes by way of tropo. Now, here in Florida I saw Cuba by way of tropo one more time...

I'm far from done...
 

After this five, nineteen more. Then, tropo...

Well, while I'm here...
 

Yet again five more...

Still here...
 

Thank you for your comments Dude111...

very cool! :thmbsp:

5 more of 9...
 

Some of these stations I have DXed when I lived outside of Boston in 1990~2000...

Last four...
 

Up next, VHF Tropo...

VHF Tropo...
 

A lot of these stations I logged outside of Boston in the 1990's...

Another Five...
 

I truly miss Analog TV DXing...

A few more...
 

Five as usual...

5 More...
 

Running out of idea's to say here...

Guess what...
 

Did you guess five more?..

Were getting there...
 

The end is near. I think 10 more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbrBLl-laqk

Good by Marty. We miss you & ch8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_2W6GYMvc

https://www.wmtw.com/article/marty-o...ngton/1925649#

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

5 of 10...
 

Five more after this...

The last 5...
 

There might be one more if I can find it. I should have the DXer's obituary somewhere...

The 1 more...
 

Image must of been mailed to the Woonsocket DXer...

That channel 2 slide is a Rorschach test for TV collectors.... looking at it carefully I see a glass of alcohol, but the first thing I saw was a pre-War CRT envelope from the side (some post war Dumonts used the same CRT envelope shape too)...After wondering for a moment why a station would display a pre-War CRT in an on air imagine in the late 50s I then realized it was really a Beveridge.

BTW IIRC in the beginning of the thread you mentioned needing to get these images off your computer...If you are seriously trying to use this website as a storage drive I'd advise against it. VK has had issues where all photos stored were lost before. No harm in sharing, but if you want to help ensure you don't loose your data back it up on another drive maybe even get a security deposit box for it.

too bad our vintage/antique tv sets couldn't pull in these signals from back then , i'd have an excuse to watch live tv again.
these are great , any more ? too bad i never thought of taking pics of tv dx

Gracious everyone :)

Sorry, that's the end of old DX photos. There were negatives with no prints but when I asked the owner of the pictures if I could scan them he yelled, NO! This was in Massachusetts. Everybody yells at everybody there...

:D Hey, we don't always yell, sometimes one finger can say more than a mouthful of words can :finger:

As for Mass I have no regrets for leaving. My fathers side went back
to 1635 in Cambridge, Concord then Acton. Ran a tavern during the
rev war & that evolved into the first department store in the US.
https://www.ironworkfarm.org/
https://www.exchangehall.com/history/
I gave up on that line 15 yrs ago, that was hard being on the same
land for 300 years.
Anyhows it just dont make sense what these people did for freedom & now
most Mass people want socialism & all out communism !
In N.H. Mass folk are known as Massholes. But I point out to them
Robin Hood. He takes from the rich & gives to the poor. Massholes are
rich & N.H. folk are poor.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Newish DX Images...
 

What got me was, I'm in the right lane doing the speed limit on either 495 or 128 and it's "Me" that has yield to oncoming traffic.

Recent TV DX here in Largo, Florida USA.

To Gainesville 123 miles. Channel 9 is WNBW. Was never analog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBW-DT

Remember XDS?..
 

Back in the early zero's I was living in Massachusetts between Boston and Providence. One morning a tropo opening to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Salisbury Maryland was going on. I fed the roof antenna into a Sony VCR that displays XDS and then into a Sony Wega that does XDS also...

Great catches and how was NYC? Connecticut? I bet were they "leapfrogged" by the others you got!

WTXF-29 ran higher power analog or you may have pulled in WPHL-17 that day. Now on DT-31, weak here.

WPHL DT-17, (and now WCAU-10 on DT-28) since 2009 has been the strongest digital and most likely to be Dx'd from Phl.

WBOC-16 and WMDT-47 both from Salisbury Md, back in analog days were Dx'ed here but not very often, over 120 miles north.