System 3 "Issues"

[julianburke]

If you want to hear something crazy check this out: About 17 years ago I was called out on a service call to a friends house that had (at that time) a late model Magnavox (Philips) set that when you set down in a easy chair across the room, set would go to "snow". Yes it did! When called, I still didn't know what they were talking about until I saw it for myself and I brought a Magnavox engineer friend to see it too. Set was operated off rabbit ears then-no cable. Of course it turned out to be the tuner with a very sensitive defective transistor in it somewhere. Yes, sitting down in a chair developes a static/RF charge that went across the room (about 20 feet) and shut the tuner down! Turning off the set would "reset" it and you could do it all over again! Marconi demonstrating his theory all over again! Magnavox was still here then and we gave bad tuner to their engineering department for research.