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Originally Posted by zeno
The only sets with strips I know of were Zeniths but never seen
any with them installed.
If a tuner has a UHF IF jack just about any tuner will work.
Just add B+ usually 12 V & antenna, ground the AFT if it has it.
When you go to UHF the VHF RF amp & mixer are just turned into
2 more IF stages. All UHF tuners are cap tuned as far as I know.
The RCA tuner is an odd ball, never seen anything like it.
Some probably had add on kits but with the added costs I
doubt many were sold. The set-top box is the easy way out.
73 Zeno  |
Standard Coil made UHF strips, for almost every tuner they built. The strips worked a little better in the cascode tuners, but they were available for the penthode tuners as well. They didn't work as well, plus the UHF transmitting power was rather weak. Once they upped the power, they worked fairly well.
I remember, Zenith used strips, more than other firms. In the Neutrode tuners there was a separate set of contacts, just for the UHF antenna.
I could go on and on about UHF tuners, as Milwaukee was a UHF town, from early 1953.