1948 (TS-4H) Motorola VT71 restored!

[Tinman]

Originally Posted by bandersen

I had a blast in HS too. I was lucky enough to have the 'electronics' shop class all 4 years. 1st year was house wiring. 2nd year a little tubes then all transistors. 3rd & 4th years - work on whatever you wanted. This was the early 80s though so I ended up making a 'new wave' electronic drum kit

I built my own Pay tv decoder in HS as an electric shop "project"

The thing worked GREAT!

Sometimes I miss those days. There was so much wonderment for electronics.
Fixing old TV's was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot.

Working on this digital crap with ROHS compliant boards you can't really solder on has really taken the charm out of the hobby.

There's NOTHING like a good tube set.