[QuadList] AFRTS Quads in action--

[Ted Langdell]

Park Seward dug up some stock footage showing AFRTS Quads in action...  
but the e-mail from the stock footage house got caught in our spam- 
catcher.

Here's the link:
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073628_television-broadcast-station_outdoor-transmission-tower_technical-maintenance_film-reels


Googling "AFRTS Videotape Operations" pulled up this link to a book  
about AFRTS, "Brass Button Broadcasters:"
http://books.google.com/books?id=ReTPdXI6ynoC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=AFRTS+Videotape+operations&source=bl&ots=DeCWOTK-IU&sig=UkZgTPodZEQc2w_VSDYXRzieBc0&hl=en&ei=SK1iTe3lIoGasAPz1bi_CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v 
=onepage&q=AFRTS%20Videotape%20operations&f=false

You may need to copy and paste the link above.  Interesting read about  
the Kinescope situation...
Page 96 mentions the Ramstein television facility and that it took  
over the studios on July 4, 1972... AFN's 29th birthday.

Here are links to the main pages for AFRTS at 50 years, and
http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=50-years

AFRTS at 60:
http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=60-years

And AFRTS in 1961:
http://afrts.dodmedia.osd.mil/heritage/page.asp?pg=afrts-BCGuide

And here's a recent broadcast systems maint. training Course:
http://www.dinfos.dma.mil/Dinfosweb/CourseInfo/tpi/BRTSM.pdf?2/17/2011%202:38:23%20PM

And to bring this back to one of the original threads in this extended  
family, there might be a copy of the first NFC/AFC Championship game  
on tape in an AFRTS archive, somewhere.  This press release about live  
coverage in 2010 on AFN says:
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/deployed-troops-get-super-bowl-via-live-feed

Televised Super Bowl coverage was limited at first to videotape copies  
of the game distributed after the fact to overseas outlets, unless AFN  
outlets contracted with commercial networks to get the game live. That  
all changed in 1982, when AFRTS stood up its satellite network,  
enabling it to provide live Super Bowl broadcasts to all troops  
overseas.

Maybe... someone will find a copy.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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