Golborne Vintage Radio

You have found s TV62 with an excellent tube in it.
Well done.

(16-09-2018, 07:24 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: [ -> ]PS: I noted where that picture was hosted and had a look at your website. You've certainly done a lot of work in documenting Britain's industrial heritage. Judging by your Shropshire location you can't be far from Ironbridge and its plethora of sites.

Come on Neutron please let us all see your website. That screen image looks superb!

Peter

(17-09-2018, 03:03 PM)peter scott Wrote: [ -> ]Come on Neutron please let us all see your website. That screen image looks superb!

Peter  

Although it's a voluntary organisation it does have DVDs for sale, so as a newbie I didn't want to be accused of advertising!
Peter is talking about www.iarecordings.org

I would also like to recommend the place I bought my TV62 which is also run by volunteers!
On The Air limited in Flintshire also has a fascinating museum collection of old radio and TV equipment and its broadcast gear including two ex-BBC O.B. 'scanners' is particularly worth seeing. They are open by appointment: www.vintageradio.co.uk

Another Peter

Thanks Peter.

Peter

"On The Air" has been around for quite a few years. They used to have a museum in Chester town centre. Steve Harris (the owner) is a decent fellow and great enthusiast. His work with ex BBC OB trucks has been a huge project.

Peter (Neutron) why not put your website in your signature line. It deserves to be better known.

Hi Peter
Some very interesting material on your website. All suitable for viewing on a 405 line TV

Thanks for sharing your parts list I am sure it will be useful to constructors.

Frank

(17-09-2018, 06:44 PM)`FRANK.C Wrote: [ -> ]Some very interesting material on your website. All suitable for viewing on a 405 line TV

I seriously thought of advertising our titles as available in 405 black and white (as a joke)!

Unfortunately if anyone had ordered, the only practical physical medium to distribute it on would be VHS and that depends on the viewer having an old dumb VHS player which doesn't care about line length. Even then the dropout compensator wouldn't work. I tried some recordings but I only have sophisticated last-generation VHS machines with fancy timebase correction type processing and they didn't like it at all!

Hi Frank,

I rarely pop in here, but I must say your work on a standards converter is incredible. It was mentioned in VRAT. I've always had mind to build an electronic one (I did make an optical one in the late 80's!); I'd just love the challenge. I had completely failed to realise how inexpensive these FPGA's are. I think it may take me a while to get my head round the programming, as I'm more used to programming PIC and more often Atmega microcontrollers.

I've now ordered the parts and a board as described, and look forward to constructing your converter, and maybe having a tinker myself.

Thanks.
Doz.

Hi Doz
Welcome to the forums. tell us more about the converter you built in the 80's it sounds interesting. The FPGA boards are great value. Before this project I had only done PIC programing and it did take a while to get my head around hardware programing. it needs a different way of thinking. I cant recommend FPGA's highly enough they are really wonderful devices. If you are thinking of getting into FPGA programing you could do worse than reading through this thread, Jeffrey gives some great lessons in it.

Best of luck with your build any questions just ask.

Frank

Optical conversion is the original way to do it. At its simplest you point a camera at a monitor. I've done it to convert 405 to 625 and it worked better than I expected.

Until 1963 it was theonly was to convert line standards. Until 1968 it was the only way to convert field standards.