Home Chain Radar
“Home chain Radar”. What’s that all about? Well, before World War 2 started, the government set out to provide an early warning system which would be able to detect nasty airborne fighters before ...
Seth´s Articles
Quick history of Colour TV
Last month, I wrote about some classic old radios. A customer, ex TV engineer, came in during week and we had a walk down TV memory lane.Colour TV had been around in the USA since the late ‘40s. RCA ...
Potted history of the mobile phone!
Last month, I wrote about how the public telephone system started. Having won a Pulitzer Prize as a result, I thought I would tell you all about the dawn of the mobile phone.Mobile telephones have ...
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, Brilliant engineer and inventor of the “Death Ray”?Born in Croatia, 1856, Tesla was to become a massive influence in the area of electrical engineering.After school and university, ...
Classic radios of the past
Classic radios of the past Wireless set from the ‘40s-60s, were shackled to a degree performance wise, given that transmitted material was limited to Medium and Long Wave. This gave you an audio ...
BSR, the company that gave us the record player
Dr. Daniel McDonlad ’05-’91.If, like me, you are a ‘50s-‘60s ite, you probably remember stacking records up on an automatic turntable, watching the first drop, being played then another dropping and ...
BBC Radio 4 (real name, Home service), the end is nigh?
I have written about some important topics in my time, but this towers over global warming, asteroid hits, Spanish economy, Global Economy, Covid…. BUT, the end of BBC Radio 4 long wave. This has ...
Alan Blumlein
Unsung engineers that gave us things we take for grantedAlan Blumlein 1903-1942Now here’s a clever chap that not many people would have heard about. Amongst other things, his work was instrumental ...
TV Buyers guide, Some things to think of!
Before investing your hard earned Euros in a nice new telly, you may find some of the points set out below useful. This document can be downloaded from www.zeta-services.tv and printed for use as an ...
How servicing has changed!
Talking about radio and TV over the last couple of months make you realise how things have changed from a servicing point of view. In the 50s-60s, electrical goods were made, to a degree, with ...
What to look for when your TV, HiFi decides not to work properly
I have written a few articles of late relating to domestic equipment, TVs and HiFi etc. A lot of you have dropped me a line, having found the information useful. Well, that's good, glad it's useful. ...
TV sets, what to buy, when to repair, how to look after…….
There comes a time, inevitably, when your old TV set eventually goes to meet its´ maker either suffering a serious illness or being beyond economical repair. In the '50s and '60s TV sets were not ...