[QuadList] Telstar1--Kinescope of Picture received in UK--Montand singing-Tech details of system

[Ted Langdell]

More film and kinescope, this time with the UK receiving the test transmissions and later broadcast programs.

BBC content on the Alexandra Palace Television Society YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sqEnH16BQ&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL4DB52B413834E8B4

Seems there was pre-recorded content being fed during the test transmissions, but the Brits dropped the playback idea and went live for their opportunity to feed the bird.

Folks in/near Washington, DC may want to attend an event:

To celebrate this milestone making event, a program is to be held at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on July 12th, in Washington, D.C.

For more information on the “Telstar 50th Anniversary” symposium, go to:

http://airandspace.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=4057

And if you want to know more about Andover and Telstar:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1963NASSP..32.1561H/0001563.000.html

For example:  Video bandpass was rolled off after 2 mc.  

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary

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