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Doug Houston
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01-27-2009, 11:06 PM

ARRAN: You and I both need to get our signals straight about which country certain tubes were used. I forget that tubes, such as 5Y4 were used in Canadian radios, by RCA. I think that there were others too, though examples escape me. Apparently, Canadian RCA wasn't as tightly under Sarnoff's heel as the US RCA. While a lot of Canadian RCA sets used he same chassis as those offered to the south, a great lot of them were totally designs that were Canadian RCA only. Quite a few of the Canadian RCA's were a lot better in quality of design than their similar sister sets in the USA.

So, having serviced radios since 1944, I have a clear idea about what went on south of Canada, buit the Canadian GE and RCA were different creatures.

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38-690 questions - by Guest - 01-19-2009, 12:22 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by codefox1 - 01-19-2009, 03:42 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Doug Houston - 01-19-2009, 04:41 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Steve D - 01-19-2009, 06:25 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Arran - 01-19-2009, 11:15 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Fred R - 01-20-2009, 10:53 AM

Re: 38-690 questions - by FStephenMasek - 01-27-2009, 01:49 AM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Doug Houston - 01-27-2009, 11:06 PM

Re: 38-690 questions - by Arran - 01-28-2009, 04:02 AM

Re: 38-690 questions - by 49Stude63 - 02-01-2009, 01:01 PM

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