Analog TV DX by E-skip fading (figuratively and literallly!)

[JFredUK]

Old, manually tuned TV sets received everything there was that it could receive. So, getting DX signals was relatively easy. Modern TVs, with all their electronic/digial tuners that are made only to receive a strong clear signal, i.e. digital, make it practically impossible to receive stuff that it's not designed to. Weren't old tv screens so round, back then?

[1L6E6VHF]

@JFredUK By about 1952, most monochrome TVs in the USA had CRTs shaped like this one - what the industry would come to call a "pregnant rectangle" (I believe most UK monochrome sets had rectangular sets by the mid 50's, too). When this set was made, about 1958, only colo(u)r sets were still being made as roundies. Some newer sets do OK for DXing, but, take away those with "blue-screen squelch", no manual tuning, and those tham jam themselves, it is a few indeed.

[italodancer81]

Yes true!

Older tv set have better reception for some reason.

[mathiasvolta]

Excellent !5*

[Guacatechs]

TVDX on a classic tv set, very nice.

[1L6E6VHF]

Thanks. Oddly enough, older TV sets (but not -this- old are often better for lowband (2 to 6) DX then new ones. All those neat electronic features, switching power supplies, and (where applicable) plasma displays have brought us TV sets that interfere with themselves.

A set with knobs and a CRT has none of these.

[rnd123a]

wow, i have one of those UHF antennas too :)

picture looks really nice for a 50+ year old tv!