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Racal RA17 re-born : A trip down Memory Lane

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Will_D:
Weren't ECC81's common as chips in TVs? I had a box full!

seadog:
Indeed they were. The EF80 was another. I sold three dozen of them, untested, to a chap in Malaysia. It cost more to post them than he won them for (£7-55). It was interesting packing them.

awemawson:
When I was at school I was befriended by a chap in the TV shop in the town, and can remember cycling home one day with my push bike saddle bags FULL of EF80's, PL84's and ECC81's that had been pulled from sets that he was scrapping. Back then before common sense had been banned and children were allowed to DO things we had a Radio Club at school where we regularly dived into the back of mainly Black and White but very occasionally colour TVs.

But then, in the CCF signals section at school we had a C52 transmitter that we regularly netted with other school CCF's, and the aerial for that TX would kill any careless sparrow that put a foot wrong  :clap:

Children these days miss out on SO much - bending plastic just isn't the same.

seadog:
What was the C52, Andrew? I had a C50 for a while which I ended up scrapping due to lack of interest and space  :(   :Doh: :doh:

awemawson:
C52 was a 19 set on steroids - C denoting made in Canada

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