<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; ">Television being a global medium... there's a camera you may have seen pictures from in the US.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Here's Liam with a backpack device he says as used to haul the 1957 Fernseh KOD model camera he's next to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">up to a suitable location for covering US President John Kennedy's visit to<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/JFK_speech_lch_bin_ein_berliner_1.jpg"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: #0018ea"><u> Rudolph Wilde Platz in West Berlin,</u></font></a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">June 26, 1963, where he gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech during the Cold War.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div> <br><img src="cid:203FB579-4BA3-44F3-AA5B-EDB3FE23F58F@gateway.org.10.in-addr.arpa"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">The camera is equipped with a Taylor Hobson Varotol III zoom lens with a 4" to 20" (100mm to 508mm) zoom range.</font></div> <br><img src="cid:F6CA488E-0CFB-4DE6-8971-B82811C890F6@gateway.org.10.in-addr.arpa"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">There are other cameras to see... and a few reel to reel video recorders, including a Bosch Fernseh labelled</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">IVC 871 1" PAL unit (*with manual) and a BCN-21 portable BCN format recorder, a little bigger than the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ampex-Nagra VPR-5. More on those two in a later post or page.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">And finally, an "Early experimental Baird type receiver that would reproduce 30 lines of resolution":</font></div> <br><img src="cid:C1E011A5-1A41-4A68-A403-A6BE6FF32C12@gateway.org.10.in-addr.arpa"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Monday and Tuesday, Gert and I are heading to several television or broadcast related museums, where I hope we'll find some Quads.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">We hit the Communication Museum in Frankfurt <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><a href="http://www.gfgf.info/komm-museum-frankfurt.html">http://www.gfgf.info/komm-museum-frankfurt.html</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> on Monday and will have pictures to follow. </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">More cameras including East German ones, Ampex VR-2000's, Grundig (Grun-dich) 1" machines, a unique analog HD machine that Bosch developed, and Nipkow disk machines and tubes of all sorts. Even Klystrons (although we didn't get pix because they're boxed and crated with just enough of a printed insert showing to say, "Hey, there's a Klystron in here!")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Spent several hours tonight (Monday) in the Frankfurt home of Karl-Heitz Kratz, who has quite a collection old German radios from 1923 into the forties. He also collects old and valuable test equipment from the late 1800's and early 1900's. As Artie Johnson is forever saying.... "Verrrry interesting" and very beautifully created devices of wood and metal. He also is into tubes ("bulbs" here in Germany) , steam engines, and powered toy train engines of Zero gauge and smaller.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018EA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We plan to visit this museum late Tuesday: <div style="display: inline !important; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0018ea" style="text-decoration: underline;font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u><a href="http://www.gfgf.info/technik-museum-speyer.html">http://www.gfgf.info/technik-museum-speyer.html</a></u></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">"</span> and are hoping the folks in Weisbaden where the Quads are will have someone around to open the door Tuesday or Wednesday morning before I head home on United 901 to SFO.</font></div></div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Soooo... wish us luck.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Ted</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Secretary</font></div><br></body></html>