[QuadList] Introduction--Welcome!

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Fred,

Welcome and hope you enjoy the interchange.

We have 153 active subscribers this morning, and 163 that have signed up since the list began in July, 2008.

You're probably one of the youngest people on the QuadList with Quad experience.  We have members in Missouri, including Klara Foeller at the Missouri History Center who runs a VR-1200.  Anyone else in or near Fred is welcome to pipe up.

Did you know Del Holford at PTL?

There are some folks on the QuadList with Hitachi experience.  What model of Hitachi are you working on and do you have manuals?

Ted

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


On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Fred Kovach wrote:

> 
> I have been lurking for some time, but decided to take the plunge and join the group. 
>  
> I am presently the Chief Engineer of Global University’s TV studio in Springfield, MO.  I have been in broadcasting for 30 years; having interned at the PTL Television Network, where I got my first taste of videotape on 2” and 1” and got hooked!  After my internship, I moved back to my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA where I worked at WRS Video Labs, starting as a dubber, but was soon promoted to Engineer and eventually to Shop Foreman.  While there, I maintained Ampex AVR-1’s and had the opportunity to restore two AVR-2’s.  I mainly worked on their Ampex 1” VPR-2B’s though.
>  
> After three years there, I met my wife and moved to Florence, SC to be closer to her.  There I worked for WPDE-TV15, maintaining their Umatic and Beta SP decks.  In 1995, I transitioned into my present position at ICI University, which became Global University in 2000. 
>  
> Presently, I have been called in to maintain an RCA TR-600 at a sister studio here in town.  I am enjoying this “blast from the past” in my career, and look forward to doing more work on the 2” format.  While I am sure there are younger engineers than I who work on 2”, I figure that I must be one of the youngest (at age 50) who operated 2”; since I did so at the beginning of my career.
>  
> I am also working on a Sony 1” and a Hitachi 1” VTR in the same facility.  If anyone has knowledge of Hitachi 1” VTRs, or knows of a 1” forum in cyberspace, I would appreciate the information.
>  
> Having read the wisdom of many of the engineers on this forum, I doubt that I will contribute much.  I’m not sure I have that much to contribute.  But if I can help you somehow, just ask.
>  
> Fred Kovach
> Broadcast Technician
>  
> 417-848-8381
> 
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