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Originally Posted by bandersen
I friend just dropped of this set he picked up down in the Champaign/Urbana, IL area. The owner ssid it had been in his family since 1952.
I don't think that's possible though since it has UHF and the inspection tag says Sept, 1953.
It's a 17" set in a black bakelite (or is it plastic ?) cabinet. Rather light since there's no power transformer.
 
Odd that his dad would get a set with UHF way back then. Did they have UHF in downstate IL back then or could he have picked it up from Chicago ?
 
It has a TS-410 chassis.
Uh-oh, that doesn't look good 
Sure enough - the 17HP4 is dead 
That's a shame it was replaced with a Sylvania Silverscreen 85 in 1963.
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The Peoria market was a UHF island, and the Rockford and Champaign markets had singleton VHF stations with multiple UHF network affiliate stations.