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Old 02-03-2026, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by TinCanAlley View Post
I'll do ACC with the color bars tomorrow. I am also going to hook up the scope to check the waveforms noted in the APC adjustment as I messed with that one by mistake. I'm assuming that when it says "check for proper keyed rainbow waveforms" they mean with the color bars displayed?
The particular waveforms you should get depend on what kind of color bars you have. The instructions are referring to a "keyed rainbow" or "gated rainbow" pattern that has 10 vertical bars of color with black inbetween. Is that what you have? I am disappointed that pictures of this pattern can no longer easily be found online. I've attached a couple of pages from the RCA Color Pict-O-Guide, which you can find at https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AR...Guide-1964.pdf

But really, if you know what the pattern is supposed to look like, you can just see if it's correct on the screen and checking the waveforms is not necessary.



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