Thread: Mysterious socket - help please!
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Old 20-03-2010, 20:59   #17
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Re: Mysterious socket - help please!
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Originally Posted by LondonRoad View Post
What Chris said.

Used to have them in the new town of East Kilbride in the 1960s. It did give a better picture than an aerial in those days of 3 channels and provided a fourth channel; Grampian TV. Since the output of Grampian was 95% the same as STV it wasn't a great benefit. The little box that you got had a mechanical switch that only had room for 4 channels so expansion wasn't being considered.
See my avatar Rediffusion switch.Never seen a Rediffusion socket like them and I used to work for them.
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