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Flea market Find, Sony outboard UHF converter
Hello All, I found this today,anyone knows what model sony this will work with? It is a VUC-4w with carrying case and antenna.
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IIRC the first B&W sonys imported here didnt have UHF
so I would guess it was for them. One of the Sony collectors will give you the poop on it soon I bet. Cant be many around, a great find IMHO. 73 Zeno |
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Talk about Space Age looking! That antenna is sweet!
It looks like form the styling it would fir the 5" micro TV. It had a similar grey color scheme. |
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Here you go. Not quite half-way down the lengthy page.
http://www.visions4.net/journal/time-line/ And reading closely, this antenna is tuneable by sliding a dipole. Very clever.
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I would hold out for a bit and see if a set jumps out at you. There are a lot of them out there. Then there is the problem of there is nothing to see unless you have a modulator solution.
And somewhere around here I have a NOS Sony magnetic mount bat-wing antenna for car trunk mounting to use with the 5" sets. Gotta go to the attic.
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I'll have to keep an eye out looking for one of those for the two 303s I have here. Knew they existed, but I have a 307 and a (I think...305) that both have UHF. The first set in my "collection" was a Sony 303 my Dad gave me around 20 years ago that was in pretty good shape. I kept it around and on a shelf around ten years before I thought of "collecting" sets at all. Recently found a "basket case" 303 that had a good CRT, and got mine nice and bright again (was having a weird "silvery faces" contrast problem that turned out to be the CRT).
We do have UHF still here in San Diego. Some odd Mexican stations, and for some reason....a couple regular stations have popped up in the last couple months. I've not watched them long enough to see who they are yet. There is a jack on the side of 303 that I thought was just for the little tiny box/balun for an external antenna. This little UHF tuner must shoot a signal on channel 13 or something. This great looking antenna reminds me of the one I have been looking for for the Singer TV6U.
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My current "holy grail" is trying to get enough parts together to get a Singer TV6U going. Been kicking my ass for nearly a year now :-P Last edited by AiboPet; 09-09-2014 at 07:20 AM. |
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