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From: jj@alice.UUCP
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Subject: RE: Color TV antennae and NO snake oil
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 10:14:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 10:14:46 1985
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Sorry to complain, but the act of replacing a lot of the older TV
antennas that were around in 1960 with "color ready" TV antennas
wasn't just snake oil.  A lot of the older antennas had an element
(or set thereof, for some) that resonated at each of the VHF channels,
with a fairly high Q, resulting in considerable distortion of the
signal above 2.5mHz (relative to carrier), which doesn't do much, if
anything to B&W, but causes some drastic behaviors in color sets.

Of course, there were "color ready" antennae that weren't any
good, and older antennae that were just fine, so I'm sure that
a lot of the public did wind up with "snake oil".  I only want
to point out that there were a LOT of the older antennae that did
need to be replaced.

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