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TV Test Pattern - A Blast from the Past
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description: Wayne urged me to post this. I saw this used as an avatar on another audio website, and it brought back a lot of memories. http://www.AudioRoundTable.com/images/RCA_Test_Pattern.jpg That was the classic TV test pattern from the late 30's until well into the 1960's. I remember that from when I was a kid. One station (we had them all ... all 3... KATC Ch 3 ABC, KPLC Ch 7 NBC, and KLFY Ch 10, CBS) the test pattern would come on right after midnight when the regular programming went off, right after the Star Spangled Banner with a picture of the flag waving. The test pattern would stay on 30 or 40 min and go off, then snow until daybreak. There was also a sine wave test tone transmitted that would drive you bonkers. Another station ran it all night, then back to regular programming at daybreak. Back in the early 60's we only had two channels, KLFY Ch 10, CBS in Lafayette, LA, and KPLC Ch 7, NBC in Lake Charles, LA. Remember, no digital tuning, it was a dial, click, click, click. We were so used to just clicking three clicks back and forth from 10 to 7 to 10 to 7, that we never looked around the rest of the dial. I was at school, and some other kids were talking about some cartoon I never saw. When does that come on?, I asked. They told me. No, I said, such and such comes on then. They said, no, it's on that new channel, Channel 3. NEW channel? Channel 3??? Heck, nobody told me!!! I rushed home that afternoon, clicked around to the opposite side of the dial, and Voila! Channel 3! It was a whole new world! BTW, I was a teenager before I had seen my first color TV, and that was at someone else's house. I didn't know until then that the Wizard of Oz was in black and white until just after the tornado, and when Dorothy wakes up in the Land of Oz everything was in color. It all looked the same on a B&W TV... who knew??? The purpose of the test pattern was to adjust the cameras. The patterns in the corners to adjust pincushion, fill the screen. The Indian Chief, if you will no…
creator: Paul C.
date: 2008-06-17T03:22:07-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: We had 3 network channels in Cleveland, 3, 5 and 8, a fuzzy channel 10 from across Lake Erie in London, Ont., and after awhile, UHF 61. Channel 10 introduced me to Curling and I've thought strangely of Canadians ever since. Anybody remember Winky Dink and the plastic sheet you sent away for that let you draw on the screen w/o a spanking? The first video game. Whatever happened to spankings, anyway?
creator: Bill Epstein
date: 2008-06-17T16:11:51-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: Spankings... parents quit doing that and our children have suffered for it. On the other hand, most of our kids are pretty good. You know, TV programming is crap for the most part. And a lot of stuff kids shouldn't be seeing. You have TV aimed at kids that is nothing short of brainwashing. My favorite shows as a kid... Mr. Wizard and Sky King. But if given a chance to watch what they want, kids today love to watch Discovery Channel, History Channel. But what really surprised me, my kids used to love watching the same TV shows WE watched, but now on Nickelodeon... Dick Van Dyke, Andy of Mayberry, stuff like that. They laugh at the same things we laughed at when we were that age. And kids will surprise you. We think kids aren't creative, make things, etc, like we did. I have a photo of a thing one of my friend's boys made. Not having enough computers in the house, the youngest always got the short end of the stick. So, the three boys scrounged, a video card, an old power supply, a game controller, some other bits and pieces, plugged them together in a shoe box, hook it to the TV in their room with a game adapter. Starts with a paperclip poked in the hole on the power supply. The most expensive thing was the electrical tape. So, the kids can use that to get online and surf the net. We built crystal radios out of nothing, they built a crude computer. Paul
creator: Paul C.
date: 2008-06-17T19:50:28-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: My favorites also Mr. Wizard and Johnny Quest! Oh, and Sea Hunt.
creator: SteveBrown
date: 2008-06-17T20:14:18-00:00

Re: TV Test Pattern - A Blast from the Past
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description: ici Passe Partout http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=140410&nav=menu61_2_8 KLFY Latfayette
creator: The Irishman
date: 2008-06-20T02:11:52-00:00

Re: TV Test Pattern - A Blast from the Past
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description: Yep, Irishman, that's the one. Still on the air, and the news in the morning is still in French. "Passe Partout is Acadiana's favorite way to wake up! Get complete news coverage and a look at the day ahead in English and en Francais from Lori Meaux-Steele and Bob Moore." While some things are still the same, the "Indian Head Test Pattern" is long gone. Paul PS Despite living in the middle of "Cajun Country", I don't speak French.
creator: Paul C.
date: 2008-06-20T18:53:51-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: Johnny Quest had some great big band Afrocentric music. Some hot stuff! Sea Hunt, man, do I remember Sea Hunt! Richard Diamond, Boston Blackie, Peter Gunn... all great detective shows. And "Out of the blue of the western sky, it's... Sky King!" I still think the Cessna 310 is a great looking airplane! As a kid I was in charge of fixing TV's in our house. I learned to read the tube diagrams. I'd pull the tubes, put them in a shoebox, each one carefully wrapped in an old rag. I'd pedal my bike, shoebox of tubes in the basket, down to a little convenience store that had a tube tester. I'd test the tubes, buy new ones if necessary, pedal back home, reinstall the tubes, and hopefully, the TV would fire up and work. I was all of, oh, 10 or 11 years old when I learned to do that.
creator: Paul C.
date: 2008-06-21T10:37:45-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: Yea, the 310 looks nice, but don't you think that the T-50 had more character? BTW I always felt that the 310, particularly the straight tailed 310A (USAF U-3A "Blue Canoe") a bit skiddish to fly, and a real bear with an engine out. Bob
creator: Bob Brines
date: 2008-06-21T14:50:41-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: The 310G looks like it is going 300 knots standing still. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-xgDfS6_EA (paste big smiley here)
creator: Paul C.
date: 2008-06-21T19:23:35-00:00

Re: Cool Chief! We're of an age
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description: Paul C. wrote on Tue, 17 June 2008 16:50 Spankings... parents quit doing that and our children have suffered for it. On the other hand, most of our kids are pretty good. You know, TV programming is crap for the most part. And a lot of stuff kids shouldn't be seeing. You have TV aimed at kids that is nothing short of brainwashing. My favorite shows as a kid... Mr. Wizard and Sky King. But if given a chance to watch what they want, kids today love to watch Discovery Channel, History Channel. But what really surprised me, my kids used to love watching the same TV shows WE watched, but now on Nickelodeon... Dick Van Dyke, Andy of Mayberry, stuff like that. They laugh at the same things we laughed at when we were that age. And kids will surprise you. We think kids aren't creative, make things, etc, like we did. I have a photo of a thing one of my friend's boys made. Not having enough computers in the house, the youngest always got the short end of the stick. So, the three boys scrounged, a video card, an old power supply, a game controller, some other bits and pieces, plugged them together in a shoe box, hook it to the TV in their room with a game adapter. Starts with a paperclip poked in the hole on the power supply. The most expensive thing was the electrical tape. So, the kids can use that to get online and surf the net. We built crystal radios out of nothing, they built a crude computer. Paul yeah i agree with you kids of today are smarter now i guess due to the new technology thing..and its availability..very handy..
creator: perry
date: 2009-06-18T02:08:21-00:00