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Originally Posted by AndrewM
It was not known if the RMIT training set had survived and I was very surprised when it turned up on Ebay. I'm glad it's ended up going to a collector so it should be around for a few more years to come.
I had first heard about this set a few years back. The story I had heard was it was used to train colour TV technicians in the early 1970's. It's history prior to RMIT I don't know.
The back of the set states it was made for the UK market so presumably it had a 6.5 MHz sound IF that was modified locally to our 5.5MHz sound IF. The photos of the set don't show the PAL decoder sub-chassis. Is it missing?
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You can rest assured that it's in a good home now! I believe it was used by Channel 7 television studios in Melbourne prior to RMIT, presumably as some sort of PAL vs. NTSC test set (given that it wasn't converted to PAL until it ended up with the RMIT). The PAL decoder is still there, though needs a little work.
Chris
11-21-2014, 09:37 PM
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