17-01-2022, 07:16 PM
How to watch the Queen? It's time to crank out again the picture of my 'Bude' (Baird outside - Bush inside) showing HRH in rather squashed form.
I sometimes wonder why I ever made the Bude. It is truly awful to work on access-wise. However, it does have a separate valve amplifier built in for the sound, an earthed chassis, and gives better results on both sound and vision than an untouched Baird Townsman.
The nation's memory of the actual Coronation, whose anniversary is next year, is strongly bound up with how it was watched on television and how families often got together to crowd round a (black-and-white, 405-line) television set. Owners of original working sets on this forum who can demonstrate them on the 2023 anniversary should expect a lot of local interest, once the word gets out. Of course, if we can demonstrate an actual vintage television broadcast on that date showing the original programme, to be picked up by original sets - even better. Needless to say, this is presently just a pipedream and various things would have to fall into place to make it happen.
Steve
I sometimes wonder why I ever made the Bude. It is truly awful to work on access-wise. However, it does have a separate valve amplifier built in for the sound, an earthed chassis, and gives better results on both sound and vision than an untouched Baird Townsman.
The nation's memory of the actual Coronation, whose anniversary is next year, is strongly bound up with how it was watched on television and how families often got together to crowd round a (black-and-white, 405-line) television set. Owners of original working sets on this forum who can demonstrate them on the 2023 anniversary should expect a lot of local interest, once the word gets out. Of course, if we can demonstrate an actual vintage television broadcast on that date showing the original programme, to be picked up by original sets - even better. Needless to say, this is presently just a pipedream and various things would have to fall into place to make it happen.
Steve
