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Welcome to the Group Fred!
I have a PTL postcard in the museum's collection at  SMECC that  has Baker 
and the camera crews  with TK-47s.. wonder  what   year it  was? Please let 
me know.
here  you can see it  here  
http://www.smecc.org/rca_tk-47_television_camera.htm
and print off a picture of it.,
 
Again  WELCOME!    
 
Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC  
 
 
In a message dated 10/11/2013 9:57:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
fkovach at sbcglobal.net writes:





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 
 
Fred  Kovach 
Broadcast  Technician 
417-848-8381



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