Epic win!

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

Thanks! I have to wait a long time between good sets for sure, but I do seem to pick up the rarities.

Thanks, I'll definitely do that.

By the way, the tuner is a 20-position varactor. I hadn't heard of a set with 8 UHF positions.

Zenith TVs of 1980s vintage had one-knob varactor electronic tuners with six UHF channel slots, for a total of 18 positions. These were individually tunable to the local UHF stations in the user's area, so that UHF stations could be tuned as easily as VHF ones as mandated by the FCC in 1975.

I had never heard of a varactor TV tuner with eight UHF channel slots either, until I read your post. Sylvania must have used a different type of UHF tuner in their '80s CRT TVs than Zenith used, if yours has a 20-position varactor tuner.