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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">This is outstanding! Do you have any photos
of you using one? can we add you name to this to add
this to the website for the museum?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>Now to find out a bit about the station these came
from.....</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed# <A href="http://www.smecc.org">www.smecc.org</A> In a message
dated 1/13/2010 12:58:54 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dlamm1@neo.rr.com
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>I need model # of this, I
need manuals... would be fin to have the rest of the
guts... has a big ass plug that hooks to a ccu... also need tripods and
pedestals for them and i want to set one of the camera up with a full
turret of lenses so we need lenses to fit it... but most of
all.... wanna hear how these were used and where and maybe some
stills of them in use.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Those are Dage 520's. They were mono Vidicon cameras. This is confirmed
by 7735 tube type numbers in one of your pix. My understanding is that Dage
equipment was popular with educational institutions. The company I once worked
for (both a UHF broadcaster and an equipment dealer) sold Dage and other
brands to colleges. We even used a pair of them on our B & W remote unit,
along with a Dynair switcher, Riker sync gen and RCA TR-5 quad. Back in 1970,
this wasn't too bad a setup for a small town station. The color truck had
PC-70's.</DIV>
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<DIV>That big connector has been around at least since the days of a TK-11
camera. Nearly every domestic camera maker with split camera-CCU used it. In
the color realm, it was TV-81 and TV-85 nomenclature, IIRC. The CCU's you seek
are just 2RU tall. Dage could take a zoom lens, as your pix show. We only had
one of those, the second 520 used C-mount fixed lenses.</DIV>
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<DIV>520's weren't too heavy. One person could place them on a Hercules tripod
easily. Being Vidicon, they were almost unusable doing night
high-school football games at your typical 1970's era stadium. Pretty
much a daytime camera. I am still amazed that our sales department could line
up any sponsors for some of the horrible quality tape we dragged back to
the studio after shooting a Friday night football game. Towards the end of
their life at our station, the best 520 got to be the scoreboard camera in the
color truck. Hardly a glorious end to one's career.</DIV>
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<DIV>To a kid of 17 working his first job in broadcasting, a 520 was a
magnificent triumph of engineering, exceeded only by a quad tape
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