• "The Larkins" TV aerials

    From NY@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 26 22:04:35 2021
    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".

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  • From Brian Gaff (Sofa)@21:1/5 to me@privacy.invalid on Wed Oct 27 07:49:34 2021
    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

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    "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in message
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    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".

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  • From tony sayer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 27 13:51:09 2021
    In article <slasq1$9e$1@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff (Sofa) <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> scribeth thus
    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


    No!, a mix of both for the BBC and ITV regions..

    Http://tx.mb21.co.uk/info/405/bbc/index.shtml

    http://tx.mb21.co.uk/info/index.shtml


    The BBC had all of Band 1 and some in band 3 VHF...


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  • From williamwright@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 12 21:55:33 2022
    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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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to williamwright on Tue Sep 13 09:10:09 2022
    Yes there used to be still some of these round the back of some houses in Wandsworth back in the 90s, no idea if they were used for anything, but I
    did some years ago try a Jbeam wideband Band III aerial out on DAB and it
    was very good if pointed in the right direction, you could get other
    stations if they were on the frequencies not obliterated by the local
    stations.
    Even an Antex around here works for DAB, but its better if its cut down a bit..
    They knew how to make them last back then, however the clamps were all
    rusted up and had to be cut off with a hacksaw.
    The Antex was good as it had some springs under the nuts for each aerial which were holding a kind of ally cast clamp, so they did not snap where
    the fixing holes were. Getting the lid to unscrew could be a challenge.
    Brian

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    "williamwright" <wrightsaerials@f2s.com> wrote in message news:jo9km4Fv9qU1@mid.individual.net...
    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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