Wired vs Wireless TV Remotes

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Originally Posted by bandersen

I don't believe the mystery used a seeker. Rather, it had station presets on the dial. It works like a rotary telephone dial and sends a number of pulses corresponding to the station selected. The radio has a stepper motor that ratchets the number of pulses dialed.

It's described in detail here: http://www.philcorepairbench.com/mystery/operation.htm

They really didn't have station presets on the radio dial, the radio had separate indicator windows below the dial for each of the presets, with the remotes having paper station tabs circling the dial to match. The presets are actually padders on the radio chassis. I've had many of these over the years.

I am curious why the previous poster described them as "signal seekers". Maybe he has a different definition of the term?