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Originally Posted by jstout66
RCA-- for the most part, not bad, but come summertime, it was back to back flyback replacement, with the CTC-38/39 being the most god-awful set they ever put out.
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My grandmother had a CTC39xx (it said that on the Sams). New around 1975. And a service contract for it. Saw some of the paperwork, once a pilot light for the channel numbers was replaced. She watched TV a lot, whenever we came to pay a visit grandma had to watch some soap opera around 1PM for a half hour. Was in college then, and back at college I mentioned to some of the girls of the floor of the dorm my grandma watched the same soap they were talking about. "Oh, the episode when the guy was in the hospital? I missed that one, do you remember what happened?" course not, I didn't know the background of the plot and so on.
Grandma checked out years later, and we ended up with it. It still worked, UHF worked but VHF was dead (obviously the VHF local oscillator tube must have been weak), but my brother tossed it.