Kutztown TV finds

[Tom9589]

Back to Dave's original message.... Why did Zenith do that even-odd channel number arrangement?

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Tom9589

Back to Dave's original message.... Why did Zenith do that even-odd channel number arrangement?

The Bull-eye tuner is described in the operating manual but no mention of the interesting, non-sequential channel order.

I don't know but here in S.E.-PA., having 3-6-8-10-12 all adjacent to each other could have been a selling point, so you never needed to go "around the horn" to find out if anything is worth watching. Conversely if you lived in a metro area, typically using 2-4-5-7-9-11-13, you were equally accommodated.

Ill get a close up later but here is the set. Pre-1962 Zeniths are nearly impossible to find around here.

The 21FP4A is branded Zenith but with GE code, it tests weak and its cooking right now on the B&K 445.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Tom9589

Back to Dave's original message.... Why did Zenith do that even-odd channel number arrangement?

This has been discussed a few times on VK before...
In VHF heavy markets (especially if you lived between 2 of them) adjacent channels wouldn't be assigned in the same city.
So if you lived say on the eastern end of the Wisconsin Illinois border a Zenith tuner would allow you to tune channels 7,9,11 out of Chicago to the south then rotate your roof top antenna and tune the even channels from Milwaukee to the north.

If you only got one market all your channels would be clustered, and if you got 2 markets you'd have 2 clusters so to scan every channel you'd only have to rotate your antenna once per scan.