[Elecraft] Early TV

[Fred Jensen]

When I was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo in 1958, I met a 
senior who was looking for someone to replace him on the engineering 
crew at KSBY Ch 6.  I had the 1P and they hired me.  Most of the studio 
equipment was Dumont, including a flying-spot scanner, and the TX was 
Dumont, Serial # 3 on Cuesta Ridge to the north.  Worked there nearly 
full time until, in a deja vu moment, I found a freshman with a 1P a 
couple months before I graduated to replace me.

The Dumont gear was replaced with RCA and an RCA 10 KW visual TX, 
however we kept the old slide and film chain with projectors thru an 
optical mulitplexer into an iconoscope camera.  When I was graduating, 
the CE gave me one of the old ike's, it's now a decorative item on a 
shelf in the living room.

Checking into the NorCal net on 80 last week, I was struck by the 
difference between my K3 and ham radio gear [and TV broadcast gear] of 
the 50's.  Then, it took me several minutes to zero beat NCS.   Now, I 
just set the K3 to 3533.000 and I know I'll be within a couple of Hz.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 9/20/2020 11:41 AM, hawley, charles j jr wrote:
> I’m from Chicago, so seems like we got three or four at once. But I do remember the first TV set, Dumont 12 inch round tube, 1948.
> A friend of mine got a Halicrafters 5 inch or so near the same time, and an antenna on a tower. Plus an oil filled thing to look through that made the image bigger.
> Remember those colored plastic things people put over the screen to add a bit of color?
>
> Chuck Jack Hawley
> KE9UW
>
> Sent from my iPhone, cjack
>
>> On Sep 20, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>>
>> and some of us remember the arrival of the first TV station in town
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>>
>>> On 9/20/2020 10:11 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>> You're forgetting that you're talking to hams here ... almost all of us are likely to be old enough to remember that commercial.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Dave   AB7E
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 9/20/2020 5:40 AM, Bob KD7YZ wrote:
>>>> Magic or Memorex?
>>>> (most of you are too young to remember the TV commercial)
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