[QuadList] SMECC Had a TR-5 Quad delivered today!

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

I  am looking to learn anything I  can about the TR-5   aside  ffrom being 
able to show  people   what a 2"  tape machine  looks  like   I am  
intrigued  with  making it  work!
 
This hi band  head  you speak of.... this is   interesting....   no other  
changes in  modules needed  as  far as rest of the electronics!? tell me  
more!
 
good  to hear  it is  rugged.
 
what is blue ribbonitis?!
 
Ed#
 
In a message dated 4/5/2012 8:26:40 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
dlamm1 at neo.rr.com writes:

What do you want to know about the TR-5?
 
Spent many a night in a TV truck shading cameras and running tape as  we 
recorded local sports games for later replay. The state HS athletic  
association forbid Friday night game replay till after 10 PM. Very small  
station/crew. Our TR-5 was low-band (of course), but it did have an editor. We  were 
told that if you stuck in an RCA high-band head, pictures would look  better, 
and they did. Suppose it was due to wider RF bandwidth.
 
Portable? We rolled it into the truck on Friday afternoons (or before any  
non-live TV remote), then back into the control room once the truck 
returned.  It was needed during the day at the studio for production, if the 
high-band  machines were needed for playback. Two young guys could push it around 
easily.  Rugged little beast, hardly ever broke down despite all the rough 
handling and  bumping around in a truck. Just make sure the hundreds of gold 
pins on  the wiring harness were firmly seated in the Amphenol connectors. 
Otherwise,  you could get a bad case of "blue-ribbonitus".
 
One fact I still remember: the headwheel panel contained a  three-phase 
motor, but there were only two headwheel amplifiers. A weird  
transformer-capacitor combination synthesized the third  phase.



 
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