Some Eastern-Europe sets

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by yagosaga

Hi,

there was an ad on a collector's board: Raduga for free. I asked another collector to collect it for me.

The secondary coil of the flyback is bad. See photo.

When I was on a visit in East Germany in 1980, the first time I saw this Raduga tv set in a radio and tv shop. I wondered why this Sovjet tv set has a purple picture. The other brands reporduced correct colors. But these Sovjet tv sets had purple screens.

Today I get the answer. Because the Raduga tv sets have a tint control! It is just the same tint control like I knew from NTSC color tv sets. The Raduga is a SECAM tv set with a tint control. It is fascinating.

In the next weeks I will get another Sovjet color tv set, the Rubin. It is also in good condition, but it is missing the back.

Kind regards,
Eckhard

I've heard stories that in Cuba, they imported Soviet made TV's for the NTSC standard. I don't think that's why the Raduga has a tint control in the first place, but maybe it is.