Got the Saba going today!

[captainmoody]

Here is the screen shot, (Albeit washed out from the flash) of the German market Saba combo I picked up off ebay a while ago.
It had three bad caps in the Horiz section and a fried damper tube.
I am happy it works at all! Gets a great picture with the antenna connected, The shot shows it without! Duh!
Not going to bother with any more troubleshooting now on the retrace problem as I am seriously late with my remodeling chores on our new house.

[Tubejunke]

I thought that German sets operated on some kind of different frequency. I remember when I lived in Germany working for Sam I bought a second hand German set to watch their strange programming. I thought it would not pick up Armed Forces Network and I was told it wouldnt pick up anything at home. Nobody ever bothered sending home these sets because of this belief.

[Chad Hauris]

I think the horizontal and vertical frequencies of the European TV are different (16,000 something H and 50 hz. V.) but, you can adjust the horiz and vertical oscillators on the foreign set up/down to match the US standard. I know that European standards for B/w are compatible with US by this H/V oscillator adjustment but their PAL color signal is not. Don't know about the RF frequencies for TV channels.

[captainmoody]

No, It appears to have been converted. I just didn't have the antenna on it when taking the pic. I was able to get 3 channels.
The snowy picture shown was channel 9, A nearby Canadian station.

[wa2ise]

About European TV frequencies, the sound carrier IIRC is 5.5MHz instead of 4.5MHz here in the USA. Not a big deal, as one can add extra capacitors to get the sound IF down from 5.5 to 4.5Mhz. Most everyone uses FM for TV sound, though I think a few countries use AM for sound. Must sound like hell, what with the video getting into it. FM rejects most of that.