Allowing for a lot of artistic licence and bells-and-whistles added on for comedy and boasting effect ("my aerial's better than yours"), would these aerials
https://i.postimg.cc/K8dr2KVR/Larkin-aerials.png
be any earthly good at receiving VHF TV signals in the 1950s?
They look more like bastardised Yagi UHF aerials.
I suppose they were worried that if they'd used VHF TV X and H aerials, suitably modified and tarted-up for comedy effect, people nowadays might
not have recognised "that's a TV aerial".
Back in them there days it was not unlikely to see indoor v shaped aerials
or even bits of wire draped over pictures and curtain rails kind of thing.
Big outdoor arrays were quite rare around here. Of course band 1 was
verticle and so was band 3, but not everywhere, so for Anglia for example
405 line tvs were mostly horizontal.
Brian
Allowing for a lot of artistic licence and bells-and-whistles added on
for comedy and boasting effect ("my aerial's better than yours"), would
these aerials
https://i.postimg.cc/K8dr2KVR/Larkin-aerials.png
be any earthly good at receiving VHF TV signals in the 1950s?
They look more like bastardised Yagi UHF aerials.
I suppose they were worried that if they'd used VHF TV X and H aerials, suitably modified and tarted-up for comedy effect, people nowadays might
not have recognised "that's a TV aerial".
On 26/10/2021 22:04, NY wrote:
Allowing for a lot of artistic licence and bells-and-whistles added on
for comedy and boasting effect ("my aerial's better than yours"), would
these aerials
https://i.postimg.cc/K8dr2KVR/Larkin-aerials.png
be any earthly good at receiving VHF TV signals in the 1950s?
They look more like bastardised Yagi UHF aerials.
I suppose they were worried that if they'd used VHF TV X and H aerials,
suitably modified and tarted-up for comedy effect, people nowadays might
not have recognised "that's a TV aerial".
Ridiculous.
Bill
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