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Receiver used
in RCA 1932 Field Tests

(Pictures and commentary courtesy of Darryl Hock)
This set was made in late 1931 for reception of 120 line mechanical
broadcasts. The camera was a flying spot
scanner. The iconoscope was providing extremely
poor performance at this time, and they didn't want to evaluate this set
using it until it was ready. In 1932 RCA ran
tests with up to 180 lines with this set and an iconoscope, but they
admitted that 180 lines was at the limit this receiver could
realistically provide. In 1933 RCA started another full field test with
the iconoscope camera and a new receiver
using 240 line/
24fps. This was the first receiver for RCA that utilized a single tuner
for both the picture and sound with a fixed spacing of the carriers. So
by 1933, this 1931 set was all but obsolete.

For more information, see these articles from RCA:
Experimental Television System,
Experimental
Television Receiver, Experimental
Television Transmitter, and Experimental TV and Kinescope. Also see
the schematic diagram.

Top inside view, showing the picture chassis, CRT face,
and sound chassis

The picture chassis

The sound chassis

The CRT

A photo off the screen

A 1931 International Newsreel Photo. The caption reads "Putting the
Vision in Television - Here's a vision that would lend color to any
television broadcast. The electricians are installing aerial and ground
wires atop the Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, for use
in television transmission". |