remember doing this to watch the Summer Wine ?

[manwinoname]

 

[Peripheral]

View attachment 2551

I remember that. Man the places we had to hold the aerial to get the picture right. Just one thing, I might be wrong about this but isn't the aerial the guy is holding for receiving ITV. BBC was a large H aerial and LOTSW was on BBC.

 

[Louise Lawrence]

I can't imagine having a TV that size!

 

[Peripheral]

I can't imagine having a TV that size!

Louise, every night in bed I watch one smaller than that. It is a small bedroom. I have to go into the bathroom to have a snore.

 

[Peripheral]

OOPS, I dropped a clanger. Lost my message. Old age you know.

 

[dick]

Old age and poverty as they used to say in my patch of Notts

 

[dick]

That looks like the old standard "Indoor Aerial " that never seemed to do what it was sposed to !!

 

[Peripheral]

Notts. You're not far from us then Dick. Which part of Notts are you from?

 

[manwinoname]

the picture would be ok until a car went past then it would go haywire , anyone remember the tv advert telling car owners to get a supressor fitted on there car to stop interference ?

 

[Peripheral]

That looks like the old standard "Indoor Aerial " that never seemed to do what it was sposed to !!

It was fun trying though Dick.

 

[Peripheral]

the picture would be ok until a car went past then it would go haywire , anyone remember the tv advert telling car owners to get a supressor fitted on there car to stop interference ?

I vaguely remember the advert. I'm so old now that I was even old in those days.

 

[dick]

Notts. You're not far from us then Dick. Which part of Notts are you from?

North Notts. Not far from Mansfield

 

[Peripheral]

North Notts. Not far from Mansfield

Mansfield, then you aren't far from me. We're almost neighbours. Before my fall we used to go to the Peak District a lot.

 

[Peripheral]

Going to get some shuteye now Dick. I'll be on here tomorrow, can't get out since my fall. Thank you for your conversation.
Peri.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Remember the Porridge episode where Fletch is about to launch the TV at Jarvis when Mackay interrupts and they all start watching it after the picture comes on when Fletch has the TV above his head, classic

 

[RickAns]

The glorious days of analog TV and rotary dial telephones.

 

[maltrab]

The vertical hold could also be a challenge at times

 

[Peripheral]

Remember the Porridge episode where Fletch is about to launch the TV at Jarvis when Mackay interrupts and they all start watching it after the picture comes on when Fletch has the TV above his head, classic

I remember that episode Captain. Many years ago in my early twenties, I used to be a TV engineer and spent quite a bit of time moving aerials and TV sets about to get a picture.
Peri.