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That was one of RCA's better consoles and I think it uses the CTC121 chassis. It probably has loose connections in the tuner and tuner control module.
I had a similar Philco-Ford motel set from around '74. There was a local motel who used these sets up until the early '80's and I knew the guy who worked on them. When the motel upgraded to solid state Zenith System 3's, he ended up getting a bunch of the old Philco sets and he eventually gave some of them to me. I think they loved to eat flyback transformers.
That converter box is an oddball one and I don't think it's a cable company issued box. It uses a 12 position varactor tuner that will allow the user to program whatever 12 channels that are desired. Many TV's and VCR's of the early and mid '80's used the same style tuner.
I wouldn't mind having that little Zenith; but, I'm going to have to hold off for now as I have something else coming up in the near future. At least they are common enough that they show up fairly often, although not always with the paperwork.
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