[QuadList] South Carolina ETV was (Quad on the Air!) now Dage 520

[couryhouse at aol.com]

This is outstanding!  Do you have any photos  of you using  one?  can we 
add you name to this  to add  this  to the   website for the museum?
 
 

Thanks!!!
 
Now  to  find out a bit about the station these came   from.....
 
 
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  In a message  dated 1/13/2010 
12:58:54 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dlamm1 at neo.rr.com  writes:

[snip]
 
I need  model # of this, I  need  manuals...  would be  fin to have the  
rest of the  guts... has a big ass plug that hooks to a ccu...  also need 
tripods and  pedestals  for them and i want to set one of the camera up with a 
full  turret of lenses  so we need  lenses to fit it... but most of  all....  
wanna  hear how these were used and where and maybe some  stills of them in 
use.
 
[end]
 
Those are Dage 520's. They were mono Vidicon cameras. This is confirmed  by 
7735 tube type numbers in one of your pix. My understanding is that Dage  
equipment was popular with educational institutions. The company I once 
worked  for (both a UHF broadcaster and an equipment dealer) sold Dage and other  
brands to colleges. We even used a pair of them on our B & W remote unit,  
along with a Dynair switcher, Riker sync gen and RCA TR-5 quad. Back in 
1970,  this wasn't too bad a setup for a small town station. The color truck had 
 PC-70's.
 
That big connector has been around at least since the days of a TK-11  
camera. Nearly every domestic camera maker with split camera-CCU used it. In  
the color realm, it was TV-81 and TV-85 nomenclature, IIRC. The CCU's you seek 
 are just 2RU tall. Dage could take a zoom lens, as your pix show. We only 
had  one of those, the second 520 used C-mount fixed lenses.
 
520's weren't too heavy. One person could place them on a Hercules tripod  
easily. Being Vidicon, they were almost unusable doing night  high-school 
football games at your typical 1970's era stadium. Pretty  much a daytime 
camera. I am still amazed that our sales department could line  up any sponsors 
for some of the horrible quality tape we dragged back to  the studio after 
shooting a Friday night football game. Towards the end of  their life at our 
station, the best 520 got to be the scoreboard camera in the  color truck. 
Hardly a glorious end to one's career.
 
To a kid of 17 working his first job in broadcasting, a 520 was a  
magnificent triumph of engineering, exceeded only by a quad tape  machine.


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