"FWIW, my RCA CTC-16 is worse at picking up stations than my Sylvania DO-2 set" Ever performed "tuner alignment"? I would expect that everything (including the ceramic tuning caps), by now, has (have) aged and the nominal F_sub_o has changed. A lost art to be sure ... that along with IF alignment on a set of that vintage - a process that required a sweep generator equipped with crystal-controlled 'markers' (that were used to denote important frequencies like the video and audio carrier freqs, the color burst freq) and a pocket full of 'diddle sticks' to fit the ferrite core slugs that were adjustable in the slew of IF transformers and various adjustable 'traps' that made up the IF system in a set ... Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Nasadowski" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: [EE]: Re: Nuvistor > IIRC, their big claim to fame was the RCA CTC-16 chassis color TVs, > which were the 'New Vista' series, and featured them in the tuner. A > few FM tuners of the time used them, and some industrial stuff. > > But, by the time they came around, solid state devices were almost as > good, and I suspect a bit cheapr. FWIW, my RCA CTC-16 is worse at > picking up stations than my Sylvania DO-2 set, which uses > conventional tubes in the tunner. RCA made them, Hitachi sold them > too, but I suspect they were really RCA units rebranded. > > Hey, remember GE Compactrons? :) > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.