Anyone remember that? Along with those old test patterns and buzz when stations actually quit broadcasting? Wow them were the day's. Nothing worth televising so they just stopped for the day unlike today were they would just fill with some damn stupid infomercial!

This has been posted before but for those who are new "Test Pattern Classics".

http://www.ggninfo.com/TP3.htm

God I love that stuff. All industrial and symmetrical.

Right up my alley. In fact, I've been working on ( in my head ) on a new logo for my new broadcast using a test pattern template.

They are one of the last untainted pop culture icons.

I may as well taint them.

I remember those sometime on 12 after portland wrestling and the ol "TOM PETERSON" "WAKE UP SALES"! Now there is some history for ya!

Jimmy Snooka
Rowdy Roddy Piper
Dutch Savage
Andre the Giant
Playboy Buddy Rose

I remember during the 1970's, when KPTV would sign off. Someone came along and just switched off a light bulb. That was the good ole days of KPTV.

I remember seeing one of those not too long ago,maybe a couple years..I was laying in bed,flipping channels before going to sleep.
Forget the station though,one of the local ones.

A few years ago, the OPB television stations were signing off at night.

Regarding the "test pattern classics" page above, I found it interesting that some stations, mainly DuMont affiliates, put little stars on their test patterns. I wonder how these stars would have looked when displayed on NTSC (the test pattern pictures have higher resolution). Besides looking cool, the stars would have served as an indication that your CRT focused uniformly.

When I was at KATU we found an old Indian Head T.P. Generator in the pile of old stuff up at the XMTR/Uplink and fixed it up (the image tube was still in pretty good shape) and put it on the router. I used to use it occasionally on uplinks. It got a lot of feedback from folks on the downlink end.

http://www.videouniversity.com/tvtestpa.htm

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/around_world.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_test_card

A little more on the Indian Head artwork:

http://www.pharis-video.com/p4788.htm

> When I was at KATU we found an old Indian Head T.P. > Generator in the pile of old stuff up at the
> XMTR/Uplink and fixed it up (the image tube was
> still in pretty good shape) and put it on the
> router.

Cool! Do you know if they still have that thing? How many functional monoscope pattern generators and monoscope tubes could there possibly be in existence these days? Another thing that I've wondered is how did they guarantee a linear sweep of the electron beam in the monoscope tube? Did this tube use electrostatic deflection?