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Tom C wrote:What was your parents reaction to the home made remote?
They were fine with it.  I was in High School and had been working on and building and fixing radios since I was in the third grade. I had already built Heathkits, etc. The control was in a plastic box with two buttons for channel and mute, and a rheostat of sorts to control volume. It all plugged into a socket on the back of the TV.
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02-09-2012, 11:46 AM
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GE wireless remote
Here are pictures of the RF remote for my 21C3580.
The paint is worn from the embossed faceplate. Neat symbol  9 volt battery, two ferrite bars and one socketed transistor. GE Wireless 1.jpg GE Wireless 2.jpg
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Thanks. Now we have an idea what to look for
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 Seriously, that's probably going to be a really hard one to find!
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02-10-2012, 07:34 AM
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Good idea, transistor radio, especially because of the 9V battery.
Hell of it is, I remember a few of them in a box I had. The one above is one of those. I will get looking through my forgotten boxes. The TV was a curb rescue and it did not have the remote with it, of course.
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A remote finally popped up on ebay and my friend took a shot at it. Unfortunately, $255 was a bit over his budget
 http://www.ebay.com/itm/1958-1959-GE...-/221136881461
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10-14-2012, 03:47 PM
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about as rare as hens teeth!
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The comment about the Finn Juhl possible design of the cabinets of some models was interesting. I still haven't gotten over the '60 GE Danish set I found with a huge oval speaker on each side, and that fantastic cabinet. Next time I saw it, it was gutted for shelves.
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thats a good looking tv ,and nice shape too.
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Flash forward a couple years and I am now the proud owner of this GE coaxial TV
Unfortunately it's condemned to the garage until I can make some room for it. Meanwhile here are some photos...    
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Even better, after many months of searching and losing out on to auctions, I finally scored a remote control
     I popped in a 9 v battery and was able to pick up a signal by laying a scope probe near the unit. Probing directly inside resulted in these two waveforms. Carrier around 325 kHz  AM modulation around 400 Hz  I wasn't sure it was working correctly until I found very in depth info in Riders vol 27. Here's the schematic. Clever how they got a single transistor to oscillate both at RF and audio frequencies. Once I get the TV set inside, I'll find out if it really works 
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