UHF Set-Top Converters for early UHF broadcasts

[bgadow]

I probably have a dozen UHF converters, from the old Mallorys, Blonder-Tongue, etc., up to some crappy later models. I have a couple small ones that attach to the back of the set. My wife brought one home for me just a couple weeks ago, someone at work gave it to her-I forget the brand but it's cheaper, from the 50s. Come to think of it, I probably have more than a dozen! Lotta good they will do me this summer! Out of the ones I've tried the old Mallory does the best. We were at a radio meet early in this decade and were browsing the silent auction tables; Kim put a bid in on it, thinking it was a radio! Around here the first real local station came on the air in '54, on UHF, and that made for brisk sales of converters. Surprisingly I don't see many sets from the 50s with built-in UHF; guess the option cost too much for most people.