Old Enough To Remember?

tnbill said:
If you had a remote control roof antenna your family had money. I was the remote to control for the rabbit ears with tin foil on them. :rofl1:
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We had an antenna on a long pole that we would go out and turn depending on if we wanted to watch ABC and CBS or NBC. My parents got a remote control for it after all of us kids grew up and moved out.
 
I remember my neighbors got a new TV that had a remote control that used a bellows with a whistle inside it. I guess the tone of the whistle was picked up by a microphone in the TV and it would change channels or volume. It was similar to this one:
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billo said:
Rotary antennas. I can still see the small box atop the tv with NESW. Turn the pointer and ka-chunk! ka-chunk! it stepped noisily around the dial.
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I helped my dad install one on our roof with flat 4-wire cable. We also added a UHF tuner to the color TV.
 
billo said:
Rotary antennas. I can still see the small box atop the tv with NESW. Turn the pointer and ka-chunk! ka-chunk! it stepped noisily around the dial.
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My grandparents had one too, and . . . you got the sound just right! One time when it had been switched for a near 180 degree rotation, I hurried outside and watched the antenna rotate around. Thought it was the coolest thing.

Thanks for surfacing that memory,
Shuey
 
bdalameda said:
I remember my neighbors got a new TV that had a remote control that used a bellows with a whistle inside it. I guess the tone of the whistle was picked up by a microphone in the TV and it would change channels or volume. It was similar to this one:
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The 'console' tv/phonograph my folks bought back in the middle 60's had a similar looking controller but.....it contained a metal rod. The buttons operated little hammers that caused different tones....one would turn it on/off, the other would change channels. Volume was still my job.
 
My rotary antenna was atop a 120 ft tower. I climbed it once, to repair some wiring. I actually had nightmares about falling for a couple of years, afterwards.

Who remember having to look in the local print newspaper for TV listings, before TV guide became popular?

I have a rotary antenna in the attic of my garage. Right/left buttons, with no indicator as to current position.
 
bdalameda said:
I remember my neighbors got a new TV that had a remote control that used a bellows with a whistle inside it. I guess the tone of the whistle was picked up by a microphone in the TV and it would change channels or volume. It was similar to this one:
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Already the v2.0 then...
IIRC did the first ones emit a "click"... hence the name...
 
billo said:
Sonic booms. Car window sump coolers. Small boobs. The Draft. Telstar by naked eye. Respect.
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Funnily enough, we had a few sonic booms here in southern Spain, a few weeks ago. Apparently, it was the RAF on an exercise. Literally, a blast from the past.;)
 
We had our antennae in a poplar tree in our front yard, periodically one of us kids had to trim branches. we had to rotate the antennae because we were not qualified to tell Dad when the picture was best. Wonder if that had anything to do with us climbing like monkeys and him not able to. Now I call the cable company and whine, one thousand channels and we had more to watch with 3 channels.
 
Depends how hard you smack them..... and on which part of the body.......
 
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