Re: Turn Your Radio On ...

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 05:05:56 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:08:17 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

   It was common for US stations to start/end/both with the national
   anthem or something similar. A test pic of an eagle or something
   'patriotic' on the screen. The practice kinda faded in the latter
   60s once we had been told to be self-loathing.

 
The test patterns were dropped as color TV became more popular. Color
TV drove my uncle crazy. You had to be a little artistic to adjust the
RGB balance so everyone didn't look like a corpse and he was a techie,
not an artist.

 
I remember a "color" (which was really 'saturation') knob, and a "tint"
knob, but don't remember any sets with external knobs to adjust R, G and
B colors (other than maybe in the "no user servicable parts inside"
area...).

My uncle had a radio and TV store so he was the 'serviceable' part of the
equation. His partner made the house calls but if it was the dreaded 'it
has to go back to the shop' it was on my uncle.

Another part of the business was PA systems. The best part of that was one
of the contracts was a local dirt track. The wiring was left in place but
the setup involved hanging speakers on the trees. He would give me $5 to
hang them and I got to watch the races for free.

Something like that still exists for music events but I think most places
have their own PA systems now.