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Originally Posted by bandersen
I think so, but it's under a metal RF shield and hard to get a good look at. Do you think a tuner designed for VHF could go up to UHF frequencies  |
I grew up in an area that only had UHF at first, and would say that they sorta worked. Strips were not recommended for fringe reception. Although the strip had tuned circuits for the UHF channel, gain must have been very low. I believe the oscillator was run at a sub-harmonic of the desired frequency and then multiplied by components contained on the strip. At the time, continuous UHF tuners seemed to work better than the Standard Coil tuner strips. Few had RF amp circuits, but some UHF band boosters were available. Poor converters and low power transmitters made for a fairly poor television debut, but what the heck...it was TELEVISION!!!
jr