[Carmine]

A little trouble with the Chromacolor...

I have a friend who is opening a new business (gym). She said she is going to be very bored the next two months while she sells memberships. I said, "How would you like a color TV to watch for a while?"

Solves her boredom issue (somewhat, lol) and gets the thing out of my way until I find a place for it. Since the truck was right there, I fixed the cord, loaded it up, along with a set of rabbit ears. (an analog perk we'll soon lose)

When I fired it up with an antenna I found NO reception on VHF. It has snow, not a blank raster, but no trace of any of the strong local VHF channels.

Didn't notice this problem right off because I only tuned in our strong local UHF channel (62). It works fine on UHF.

One thing I noticed was that the little piece of co-ax cable that Zenith started using at the antenna strip had the outer section of shielded wire missing for about 1/4th inch around the circumference. I patched it with a small piece of copper wire and wrapped it with electrical tape. Then I plugged it back into the jack, so the 300 ohm ant. strips will function. (This is correct, right?)

Any idea why the VHF is dead? Since this is a varactor tuner, shouldn't it all be dead?

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