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Originally Posted by frenchy
Did any of the sets that old work the UHF channels thru the remote anyway? I think all you could do was click it up to "U" and then had to tune the UHF yourself anyway. Even my CTC-16 only has a variably-tuned vhf tuner, no clicks. Maybe the fancier remote sets let you do it though, dunno.
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A quick and dirty way to get preset UHF on those old sets (this dodge will also work for non-remote color and b&w sets of any make or vintage, with continuous or detent UHF tuner) is to set the UHF tuner on a favorite channel (say, your local PBS affiliate, a favorite movie channel, etc.) and then use the remote to set the VHF tuner to the UHF position. Presto, your favorite UHF station would show up immediately. The only drawback is this only allows for one so-called "preset" UHF position (to get the others, if your area has more than one, you had to set the UHF tuner to the other stations manually, of course). Some sets with varactor VHF/UHF pushbutton tuning and remote control could be set up this way as well, but the tuners all had to be set up for all-channel tuning (some pushbutton tuners had the first 12 buttons arranged so they only tuned VHF channels). For example, in my area, I could conceivably set up a TV like this to step through all the local stations (VHF and UHF) from Cleveland: 3-5-8-19-23-25-43-55-61. Nine stations, and if they were all arranged in a column in ascending order, one could select any one of them with the remote. This will work in any city, of course. The nice thing about this arrangement is that the channels can be shuffled around any way you like, not unlike the favorite channel lists on today's cable boxes. The only limiting factor in either case is the number of channel positions available for programming. If you have digital cable with a box you can have this kind of remote tuning even on your treasured old CTC-16, or, for that matter, any TV capable of tuning to channel 3 or 4.
BTW, many late-1960s Motorola works-in-the-drawer color consoles had five-button preset UHF tuning (not unlike a car radio), but the VHF channel selector was the regular 13-position detented tuner. I don't think any of those sets had remotes.