NEWS AND TECHNOLOGY • INSTALLATION • SERVICING -DEVELOPMENTS Tali S 0 AND CO NSU MER ELECTR O NICS JULY 2004 £3.20 Vintage radio servicing A dipole for DAB Servicing 5•5in. mono portables Freeview 1 1 01 7> reception problems 1 1 9 1770032 647139 FAULT FINDING FOR TV AUDIO SATELLITE VIDEO IT -=== lt tak Dp cEs jr.à /Du all the rem cDrstrDb5 jr)NLJ r JP% We didn't mean for it to be so big, it's just that when we asked you what was needed by the industry the answer was - the most definitive remote control cross reference available in the European market. We listened to you and the result is our latest 2004/2005 remote control catalogue. It is big! 456 pages listing over 15,000 models, 22,000 part 2004/2005 numbers/handset numbers and 4,400 original handset illustrations. It is the most complete guide to remote controls ever produced. As new models are being added to our range every day even a catalogue such as this will not contain the new additions to our range since printing. No problem! Simply check for the model you require on our website N.vww.classic-electronics.co.uk Over the next two months your Classic distributor will be sending you your very own copy of the catalogue. If you do not receive your copy or you need an additional copy contact your usual Classic distributor, phone us on 01635 278678 or email us at [email protected]. classic, Technical helpline 01635 278678 CONTENTS July 2004 Vol. 54, No. 9 515 Comment Editor 540 Vintage radio repair The strange story of liquid crystals. Online TV. John A. Reddihough Pete Roberts 516 News tackles a couple of [email protected] Philips demonstrates 13M. polymer OLED TV. vintage transistor radios, an Ekco Deputy Editor Analogue switch-off trial. New optical disc format. First DVB-T/DAB chip. Trade news. Sony Nautilus Model Tessa Wintord PT310 that dates technology. Top-Up TV reception. Production Editor Freeview EPG launched. from the early Seventies, and an Jane Massey original Roberts R700 that was built in 1968. 518 Let's go digital! Production Executive Ray Porter's installation of a Freeview digibox was not without its problems. The local signal 542 Letters Dean Turner conditions are not ideal, and there was a vision-on- Filtering out TETRA. Analogue/digital picture 01322 611206 sound buzz problem. After some experimentation quality. The Bush Model WS6671. Confessions of a digi sceptic. That Band I1111 aerial. [email protected] satisfactory reception of most multiplexes was Satellite encryption. Corrections. obtained. Group Sales Executive 520 An aerial system for DAB 544 What a Life! Steve Morley The True Story of a Goblin carpet shampooing 01322 611 254 reception machine, and a collection of TV faults. K. Rutherford found DAB reception via a Donald Bullock's servicing commentary. Fax 01322 611 339 receiver's vertical whip aerial very unsatisfactory. A correctly-proportioned dipole was therefore Editorial Assistant made, mounted in the loft and coupled to the 546 DX and Satellite Reception Terrestrial DX and satellite TV reception reports. Caroline Fisher receiver via the domestic signal-distribution Broadcast and satellite TV news. The Dale system. The result is good, error-free reception in 01322 611 274 Parabolic aerial. Regional reflections. all rooms. Roger Bunney reports. Managing Editor 522 The Sale of Goods Act Bill Evett In this second, concluding instalment Michael 550 Audio faults Maurice deals with customers' obligations, Publishing Director guarantees, 'distance selling', second-hand 551 Test Case 499 goods and various practicalities, including Tony Grey'Ile possible court action. 552 DVD and home cinema fault reports 526 A microcontroller-based Note that we are noble to CCTV switching system 554 VCR clinic answer technical queries over John Young the telephone and cannot describes a 556 TV fault finding tnicrocontroller- provide information on spores based video other thon that pen in our 560 Books to buy switching system Spares Guide. that uses four The Television book service, with details of some of the titles you can order. CCTV security Disclaimer cameras. These We work hard to ensure that the monitor activity 562 Extended fault reports information preserved in Television in and around a A few longer reports on complex or tricky is accurate. Howe'r•er, Television's garage that's TV faults. publisher - Highbuy Business - sixty yards from will not take responsibility for any injury or loss of ecrnings that may the house, so a 564 Satellite notebook method of result from applyino information Trouble with German channels. Digital channel presented in the magazine. It is transmitting update. A new version of DVD-lab. Spanish UM'. your responsibility to familiarise video signals is Digibox fault reports. yourself with the laws relating to used. The microcontroller switches from camera to dealing with your customers and camera every three seconds. suppliers, and wit-r safety 568 Web service practices relating to working with Useful websites for TV professionals, 531 Help wanted electrical/electroric circuitry - technicians and enthusiasts. particularly as reçards electric shock, fire hazards and explosions. 532 Bench notes 570 Monitor faults Adrian Gardiner on a troublesome Beko set Next issue, dated and more madness — a crateful of small 571 Next month in Television August, on sale July 21 monochrome TVs. TELEVISION July 2004 e-mail: sales@ wiltsgrove.co.uk WILTSGROVE LTD http://w w w.wiltsgrove.co.uk 35/38 River Street, Digbeth. 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