[QuadList] Aircraft Carriers (Ampex VR1200)

[Trevor Brown]

I cut my teeth on VR7800, when you could set the interchange up on one you
were an engineer

Particularly the rear guide, as for editing on them short insert long insert
and assembly

Never mind the art just stop the format dropout bouncing at the edit point 

 

When I graduated to quad I thought I had died and gone to heaven

TrevorB

UK member

 

 

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[mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Spears
Sent: 10 July 2010 18:05
To: Quad List
Subject: [QuadList] Aircraft Carriers (Ampex VR1200)

 

On the Kearsarge CVS-33 in 1969, we had the Ampex VR1200 (PLAT -Pilot
Landing Television).

 

The VTR room was on the 02 level just below the flight deck, right near our
ships television studio and the 24 hour ships entertainment disk jockey
booth.

 

Up on the island, outside was a small platform deck, with an RCA TK-10
camera and all landings were recorded, for pilot review, as well as accident
investigation.

 

Our ships entertainment television had the standard studio with Sony cameras
(B&W), lighting and used Ampex VR7800 1 inch helical VTR's.

 

Tapes came from North Island at San Diego every week with all of the 3
network world news and prime time shows.

 

Those Ampex 7800 (dogs) needed twice as much technical attention to keep
them going, than "any" quad machine ever.

 

I used to rob transistors out of sono-buoy's from our S2-F sub trackers, to
keep those things running. All you had to do was sneeze and a video head
would go bad.

 

I once made the mistake of asking Charlie Ginsburg at Ampex, if he had
worked on the design those machines...I got a very sharp and curt response
back "I had nothing !!!...to do with that program".

 

A year on the Kearsarge was one of my most memorable ships in my eight and a
half years of Navy.

 

Steve Spears

Orrs Island, Maine

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