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Old 12-25-2012, 08:43 PM
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I didn't know RCA even made a CTC-1 chassis

They didn't- before the CT-100 there was only prototypes called 'model x', where x was a number. The model 5 is a well known example, and the precursor to the production model CT-100. I have a prototype chassis from earlier on, but no one has yet nailed down exactly what it is. Near as anyone can tell, it was a lab only experimental chassis used to explore the possibility of CPA for color transmissions.

Tidbit: CTC-x only refers to the chassis, sets normally had actual names. See the picture in my signature- Director 21 using CTC-4 chassis, Wingate using CTC-5 chassis, Anderson using the CTC-7 chassis... Ed Reitan has a good site that explains all of this with pictures, he has most of the early RCA stuff up to CTC-10. Check it out:

http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/Galler...1-20-2006.html

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I was always under the impression that their chassis numbering system started with CTC2, then CTC2a, CTC2b and so forth. I don't remember ever seeing or hearing of an RCA CTC-3 chassis, either.
I'm not aware of a 2A, but the 2B is the chassis belonging to the model 21-CT-55 receiver that replaced the CT-100 and actually uses a modified CT-100 chassis. The changes include a different high voltage and scanning section to drive the larger 21" round picture tube.

Is there a CTC-3? Now there's a trick question you can pull on your friends!

Early color trivia time: In the 21-CT-55 receiver, the main chassis was the CTC-2B, and the convergence panel was called CTC-3 since it was a seperate chassis connected to the main one with a harness. Technically, there is no such thing as a receiver chassis with the designation CTC-3. So it exists, just not as a set by itself.
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:17 AM
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Is there a CTC-3? Now there's a trick question you can pull on your friends!

Early color trivia time: In the 21-CT-55 receiver, the main chassis was the CTC-2B, and the convergence panel was called CTC-3 since it was a seperate chassis connected to the main one with a harness. Technically, there is no such thing as a receiver chassis with the designation CTC-3. So it exists, just not as a set by itself.
Correct! (And nobody noticed that I had mentioned that in my earlier post )...

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Old 12-26-2012, 08:36 PM
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Correct! (And nobody noticed that I had mentioned that in my earlier post )...

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Old 12-26-2012, 11:27 AM
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...Is there a CTC-3? Now there's a trick question you can pull on your friends!
Sorta like the DC-5, the "forgotten Douglas" airliner...
http://www.dc3history.org/dc5.html
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Old 12-27-2012, 09:32 PM
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Sorta like the DC-5, the "forgotten Douglas" airliner...
http://www.dc3history.org/dc5.html
And, whatever happened to MPEG-3?
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Old 12-28-2012, 10:59 AM
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And, whatever happened to MPEG-3?
Sorta like the Douglas DC-4E..
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-fFol...%3D-fFolNwS2nY
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