LEAVE_IT_TO_BEEBUH said:

one_who_knows1 said:

. said:

Adjust rabbit ears. Fixed? Yes - stop No - go to next step.

Thump TV on the side...hard.

You forgot: Adjust "fine tuning"

Who remembers "fine tuning?"

"Thump TV on the side...hard" WAS the fucking fine tuning.

Our rabbit ears had this rotary dial in the middle with five or seven settings you could click to, none of them making any difference whatsoever.

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We actually had some UHF stations in our area - and the ONLY way to get them was "fine tuning" because there were no channel-detents on the UHF dial.

Yup. We had a UHF converter box hooked to the TV. Here's one (ours was different):

one_who_knows1 said:

. said:

We actually had some UHF stations in our area - and the ONLY way to get them was "fine tuning" because there were no channel-detents on the UHF dial.

Yup. We had a UHF converter box hooked to the TV. Here's one (ours was different):

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Recall my first 12-transistor 'pocket' radio.

Leather cased, I can still call up that smell of fine corinthian leather and hot wiring, like Proust and his Hot Pockets.

CUPCAKES,

BUILT A GIANT ANTENNA OUT OF OLD WINDOW SCREENS IN THE BACK YARD TO CATCH US AM MOTOWN ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL RADIO WAVES INSTEAD OF THE ONLY OTHERWISE AVAILABLE CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION FRENCH OR ENGLISH CHANNELS IN WHICH THEY DISCUSSED HOCKEY AND BOOKS