<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Seems like the list has gone three days without a post... so I thought I'd stir the pot with updates to some previous content:</div><div><br></div><div><b>WRC-TV Dedication restoration:</b></div><div>Both of the WRC-TV dedication tapes we've discussed earlier on the list were recorded at NBC Burbank, according to Robert Sarnoff. He says so about 15 minutes into the broadcast, right after Sarnoff presses the "Color" button. He also makes reference to video taping as having begun on a full-scale basis a month earlier with the switch to daylight savings time.</div><div><br></div><div>Sarnoff also indicates that the tape would be replayed several hours later in the day. He says he's "asked our engineers to make two tape copies of this program." One to be sent to the White House for the President, and the other to the Library of Congress.</div><div><br></div><div>At around 23:45, there's a noticeable audio change. This is likely the unexplained switch in Burbank to what Don Kent believes is the backup network audio line, which he says sounded like a POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service.) Don says he had to work very hard to get the audio to sound reasonably good.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14px; ">I spent several weeks after the transfer had been done fixing little glitches, etc. using the D-2 dub as my Edit Master and building a finished reel from that. The audio equalization took me about four or five days after work to get as close to the original sound as I could with the “protection” audio. I still don’t know why they switched. There was nothing wrong with the 5KC feed up to that point. For those who’ve never heard what network television used to sound like, it was a bit tubby and had no highs to speak of. To put it in context, AM Radio is usually good to about 7500 cycles. This was only 5000 cycles! </span></div><div><br></div><div>The posted file has a severe echo to it that I don't remember Don mentioning in any e-mails or phone conversations, so I don't know whether that was the way either tape sounded, or whether its a case of the un-altered sound is on one audio track and the "restored" sound is on the other, with an out of sync condition when both are mixed. I'll ask.</div><div><br></div><div>He is emphatic about where the recordings were made:</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; ">And, both were recorded in Burbank. I can say that with some certainty because of the sound quality. If it were recorded at WRC it wouldn’t have 5KC audio, and it does. There would be absolutely no reason to buy a crappy telco line when they could just drop a cord out the window, you know? Anything’s possible, though. To be sure, just ask that guy at the L.O.C. what the audio frequency response was on his tape. That will tell the tale.</span></div><div><br></div><div>And Don also gives credit to one of our QuadList members, who went unrecognized when the Emmy Awards were handed out:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: blue; font-size: 15px; ">There was a guy from Merlin Engineering, Ken Zin, who helped us. I think the NEC </span><span style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEC NTC-10 TBC)</font></span></font></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "> came from Merlin, but I really don’t remember that well. Dan or Ed will, though. Ed remembers that kind of stuff a lot better than I do. Sorry</span>.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>So what brought this up again? The fact that there was an on-line post of the restored videotape here: </div><div><a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/morelike/v18866629PBfqyzrh">http://www.veoh.com/browse/morelike/v18866629PBfqyzrh</a></div><div><br></div><div>I do not know the source of the tape used to make this file, and imagine my surprise to see the RCA TRT-1 transport and the Quad Videotape Group icon at the beginning of the posted video and again at the end, where reference is made to the Quad Videotape Group website and where to find the story of the restoration.</div><div><br></div><div>First, I appreciate the ability to see the video again. It is in content, what I remember Park and I saw at the UCLA Film and Television Archive screening in July of 2008.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, I also appreciate the mention of the group, and hope that it has helped people find the site and the group.</div><div><br></div><div>Since neither I or "the group"—however it may exist—had anything to do with this posting, it might be better for all concerned if the logos were not on the posted clip and the open or close didn't make it seem as though there was a connection. </div><div><br></div><div>If a member is responsible for this, we thank you for your efforts. Hope it didn't expose you to some risk. Mentioning the URL about the restoration should be enough... and would keep any potential hot water from coming into contact with yours truly :) </div><div><br></div><div><b>Moving along from content to equipment—Ted has a Bosch nosh:</b></div><div>In the course of representing <a href="http://www.flashscan8.us">MWA Nova's film transfer and film picture and sound recording gear</a>, I've got a trip to Berlin coming up a week from tonight.</div><div><br></div><div>Since I fly through Frankfurt on my way to and from, I've arranged to meet Gert Redlich from Weisbaden near Frankfurt, who is the man behind Deutsches Fernsehmuseum Wiesbaden at <a href="http://www.Fernsehmuseum.info">http://www.Fernsehmuseum.info.</a> </div><div><br></div><div>That's where I got the photos of Bosch Quads you've seen previously.</div><div><a href="http://www.fernsehmuseum.info/fese-bcm40c.html">http://www.fernsehmuseum.info/fese-bcm40c.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><img width="240" height="227" border="0" alt="" src="cid:1140336B-B91D-4F9E-BC59-08001D775C68"></div><div><br></div><div>Now <a href="http://www.Fernsehmuseum.info">http://www.Fernsehmuseum.info</a> exists only on the net. </div><div><br></div><div>He is working to arrange a visit to the place where the machines in these pictures are stored, and I hope to be able to get more photos and videotape some interviews about the stories behind Bosh Quads and the RCA and Visual/Allen connections we've written about earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm spending from Sunday afternoon Oct. 4 through the morning of Oct. 7 in Frankfurt, and he's going to take me to visit other people... whom I understand have heard the zing and made Bosches sing. Likely other brands, too.</div><div><br></div><div>So we may have more stories to tell when we return to the US. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Ampex Retirees Picnic, last Saturday:</b></div><div>Did anyone on the list get to go? Tim (Stoffel, Quadruplex Park/KNPB) was planning to come over from Reno and we'd ride together from Marysville, but tire problems caused that to go flat... and I had a major backlog of work so neither of us could go. </div><div><br></div><div>Ken Zin was considering it, and so was his Merlin colleague Al Sturm. Richard (Lab Guy) from the Old VTR's group on Yahoo was also planning to go.</div><div><br></div><div>Did anyone on the list make it? If so, what happened? Pictures? Gert would love to have some for inclusion on the fernsehmuseum.info website—and so would we. Particularly of the surviving members of the Ampex Quad team.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that's enough stirring... except to say that I'll be demoing equipment in Burbank this week... Sunday—Friday, and a get together is possible. (530) 301-2931. </div><div><br></div><div>Driving down tonight... and if you're up late working on equipment or bored stiff, call me and keep me awake!</div><div><br></div><div>Have a good weekend, and hope it's nice where you are with no fires or unpleasantness.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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