[QuadList] Quads seen working at June, 2012 New England SMPTE Meeting--Link

[Langdell Ted]

(Woonsocket, RI)—More than 80 people—including New York SMPTE Section members from NYC and Connecticut—got a chance to see restored Quad VTR's at work as the New England Section of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, SBE Chapter 11 and Mass. Broadcasters Assn. took a special trip in June.

They toured the Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with museum co-founder and QuadList member Tom Sprague explaining repairs to the FM section of a TR-70 that allowed it to be playing tape.  Tom also told about the late 1970s high-banding of the museum's Ampex VR-1000HB.

One RCA TR-600 was working next to an idle sibling, an RCA-TPR-10 portable Quad was on display, among other machines the museum has. 

A number of cameras were working, enabling a bit of "hands-on," including RCA TK-44As that long-time network and now ESPN engineer and MBT's Jay Ballard has been nursing back into operation.  TK-47s were also working.

An RCA film island was also in operation, featuring TP-7 slide and TP-66 16mm film projectors feeding a TP-55 multiplexer seen by a TK-28B film pickup camera.

Visitors were treated to some meaty material during a light buffet: Video and film clips from the late Joe Rozien's collection.  

Those included Editec and VTR enhancement demos from 1958-9, and the entire 1959 "Kitchen Debate" captured by an RCA TK-41 and recorded by an Ampex VR-1000.

Rozien's home movies of the setup for the Moscow showcase helped show what it took to accomplish that in 1959.

The museum is saving a venerable collection of television gear in an apt location: The former Woonsocket Institute for Savings.  The former bank's large vault stores the museum's collection of manuals and spare parts.

See pictures and more here: http://www.smpte-ne.org/lastmeeting.html

Note that if that link is replaced by the September meeting, you may be able to find the page by starting here: 

http://www.smpte-ne.org/

Fast-forward to the September meeting, which was a presentation of 4K Digital Cinematography by Sony.

The next meeting continues to show how far electronic image-making has come:  Advanced Video Codecs and DSLR Cinematography.  6:30pm doors open on Oct. 17 at Rule Camera in Boston.

Someone should bring a VR-3000 and PCP-90 for comparison.

Ted

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