Tom C wrote:What was your parents reaction to the home made remote?

They were fine with it. :yes: 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.

GE wireless remote
 

Here are pictures of the RF remote for my 21C3580.
The paint is worn from the embossed faceplate.
Neat symbol :grnbounce

9 volt battery, two ferrite bars and one socketed transistor.

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Thanks. Now we have an idea what to look for :)

I would look on eBay under "Transistor Radio" :D

Seriously, that's probably going to be a really hard one to find!

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.

I'd also look under "garage door remote".

A remote finally popped up on ebay and my friend took a shot at it. Unfortunately, $255 was a bit over his budget :yikes:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1958-1959-GE...-/221136881461

about as rare as hens teeth!

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.

Same here! I thought it was a 4 x 7 until I got a sense of scale from the tuner in front, I've never seen an oval speaker that size before! Great looking set.

thats a good looking tv ,and nice shape too.

Wow, looks like I need to list mine.....

Flash forward a couple years and I am now the proud owner of this GE coaxial TV :D

Unfortunately it's condemned to the garage until I can make some room for it. Meanwhile here are some photos...
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3948/...39f1d9cf_z.jpg https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5606/...2acc69d5_z.jpg

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3937/...097dcf7e_z.jpg https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3939/...fd11d191_z.jpg

Even better, after many months of searching and losing out on to auctions, I finally scored a remote control :banana:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7542/...45862f1b_z.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7542/...1a2acd89_z.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7529/...9b702272_z.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7505/...26e06f9f_z.jpg

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
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7545/...3da85489_z.jpg

AM modulation around 400 Hz
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7581/...9b761fa9_z.jpg

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 :yes:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7519/...6247e9a4_c.jpg

That remote transmitter is neat, GE was always good with "Doing More With Less" AKA maximizing profit margin :)