29-07-2018, 11:14 PM
I havnt thought about it recentley but it must be over fourty years ago now. I used to service TVs for a living. first as a part time self employed basis and then for a TV refurbishing company in Bradford. I learnt most of what I needed from a good book called The PAL TV System or similar, I still have it somewhere. Back then there were very few dual standard set around most people has switched to colour and transistorised sets were becoming the norm. I stared with PYE and Bush and Philips hybrid sets, moving on to Thorn and Bush solid state. Old sets had very complicated high current convergence settings to deal with. The old G6 had a huge slide out drawer under the front of the set to give aggess to all the controls. My favorite at the time was the Bush/ Murphy ??? model. Since then I moved onto computers, learning by expanding and making peripherals for 8 and then 32 bit systems. I'm now nearing retirement working only part time as a system designer on microprocessor control ststems. Ive restored a couple of old military radio recevers, A Racal RA17 I found at a car boot sale and an Admiralty Murphy B40. Both of these I could never afford in my youth but wanted to own, The only other valve equipment I have is an old russian oscilloscope and a naval PA amplifier which my Dad used t use for audio ampsfeeding a lowther horn speaker.
