1953 Zenith Infomercial

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Originally Posted by jr_tech

Did Zenith *actually* develop their own line of UHF strips to fit a Standard Coil tuner... or is the tuner shown *not* a Standard Coil turret tuner?

Interesting that a couple of "special UHF" antennas shown look to be VHF Yagis (the stacked pair and the one longer Yagi in the tree)... my guess that these are cut for channel 4&5 and pointed North for KOMO and KING in Seattle.

Anyway interesting to see.

jr

I don't think Zenith used a Standard Coil tuner in there sets, until 1957 or so, usually in the lower priced sets. They were usually fitted with a UHF strip, if the area had only one UHF channel. It was a "Neutrode", as Standard Coil, called it. It used a 6CG8 and a 6BN4.
The all channel sets built before that used the big Zenith tuner, that had the gearing, that skipped every other number. It had a "U" position, between 2&13 like the rest and had their own UHF continuous tuner.
IIRC, Zenith made UHF strips, for their earlier two and three tube tuners.
I've never seen any, even though, Milwaukee had UHF, early in the game.