[QuadList] Riker Switchers

Mon Oct 21 08:42:06 CDT 2013

Remember the question from years ago: "What's the difference between a Riker switcher and a knife switch?" 

Answer was that the Riker had nice pretty lights! 

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Today's Topics: 

1. Re: OT anyone have one of these colorizers!? (Gary Adams) 
2. Re: OT anyone have one of these colorizers!? (Gary Adams) 

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:26:03 -0400 
From: "Gary Adams" <garyaadams at gmail.com> 
To: "'Quad List'" <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com> 
Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT anyone have one of these colorizers!? 
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Yes definitely OT. Because I spent so much time on this, it was of 
interest. We did have that stock wipe control panel you have in the 
picture, Don, but we never used it so it was available for testing. We 
built our own panel completely, shown here (again forgive the photos as 
these were early 70s). My still long time friend Ron Beideck in the photo. 
The panel to the right of the mix panel had the cuts only portion and was 
used for on air. Read below for the next picture. 

<http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0093009/gp/gary_adams/c2Po37> 
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8433/7532630996_9cd63c1862.jpg 

L100301 1974 <http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0093009/gp/gary_adams/c2Po37> May 
KOLN Control Room 

When I started at KOLN I knew nothing (and the older I got, the more I 
realized how little I knew). Our Quads (3 1200s) were run in Horizontal 
lock because the servos were not in top shape. They didn't feed the timed 
inputs to the switcher. So a typical station break would have one or two 
taped spots and a live slide/announce. Since the VTRs were not vertically 
locked, we figured everyone at home saw a vertical roll switch for every 
spot (Net/VTR/VTR/Slide/Net). While I didn't know much, I made it my task 
to learn how to make this work better and with the help of the Engineers 
there, we finally made all machines work in "Automatic" lock all the time. 
It made our station breaks look much better. After hours we would gunlock 
to the network so our breaks would be even smoother, but that was always a 
risk. We loved it though. 

So, to keep it on topic. Here is a photo of the racks including one of the 
three quads. 

<http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0091009/gp/gary_adams/nptz0V> 
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7532648296_5cc491cf67.jpg 

L100294 1974 <http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0091009/gp/gary_adams/nptz0V> May 
KOLN VTR Room 

You can see the switcher rack (third from the left of the quad) similar to 
the one in my earlier photo, but this one had the tube EMI electronics for 
mix/effects (as they were) and keys. You will also love the Tek lab scope 
where I learned how to use delayed sweep. 

Sorry for the rant but this was fun. Gary 

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Don Norwood 
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] anyone have one of these colorizers!? 

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:33:28 -0400 
From: "Gary Adams" <garyaadams at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT anyone have one of these colorizers!? 
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Another OT reply about the Sync Generator. We had a couple of them running 
our facility as well. Backup were Grass Valley proc amps. I finally got 
the two Grass valley sync gens to run reliably so I removed the Riker. Here 
are two photos from my bedroom where I rented in the 70s while working at 
KOLN-TV. One a close up but not great. I felt the wider shot would be of 
interest as well for the equipment geeks among us, so there you are. Gary 

<http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092009/gp/gary_adams/V67LZr> 
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8372/8512023866_8b5f644515.jpg 

L106683 Riker <http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092009/gp/gary_adams/V67LZr> Sync 
Generator 

<http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0094009/gp/gary_adams/06y1R5> 
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8510943657_8f8d93afd0.jpg 

L106886 Riker <http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0094009/gp/gary_adams/06y1R5> Sync 
Generator 

From: QuadList [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of 
Don Norwood 
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 9:00 PM 
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] anyone have one of these colorizers!? 

To keep this somewhat on topic, there were 2 quads feeding this switcher! 
We also had a factory Riker proc amp that I kept for years but gave away 
along with the manual to another list member some years ago. Then there was 
a Riker sync generator and companion color standard. It had hundreds of 
diodes in the counter circuits, and they were prone to failure. When we got 
a Tek generator, I think the Riker went to the scrap pile! 

Don Norwood 
Digitrak Communications, Inc. 
www.digitrakcom.com 

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