[BrendaAnnD]

Russ,

I can almost bet I know what happened there (with the cord on the antenna). Back in the day, they had those stupid (and worthless) "Whole House TV antennas". They had a pair of disc capacitors (or maybe only one, if they were REALLY cheap!) connected to an AC plug on one end, and a piece of twinlead on the other, which then was connected to the TV. I've seen SOOOOOO many times where some enterprising soul decided not to spend money on the commercial version, and opted to simply connect an AC cord across the antenna terminals of their set and plug it in..... This REALLY made a mess of the tuner, and other components, on transformerless sets. Yeah.. that's right.. I was a bench tech for a LOOOOONG time. Someday I'll tell you about the customer that complained about how his TV looked better before I installed a new jug.