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<DIV><FONT size=4>George...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Don (The Gorilla) Adamson, (K4FBP, Free Beer and
Pizza)... Definitely </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>always on his best when he could shoot one across the
bow!! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Don left TVJ and went to work with the Hero Teleproductions
and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>teleport in Hialeah. </FONT><FONT size=4>Hero was later
bought out by GlobeCast.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I wasn't at that particular Super Stars shoot...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>BTW, one year, the tape bus was hit by a huge wave as it was
being</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>barged from the port of Palm Beach to Nassau!! The
windows were</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>both blown out!! What a mess!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Later...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0080ff face=Tahoma FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><I><FONT size=4>73,<BR><BR>Don Murray, W4WJ<BR>Fredericksburg,
Texas<BR><BR>Retired from 40 years in Miami TV<BR>35+ years at NBC O&O
WTVJ</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In a message dated 2/4/2010 12:54:52 P.M. Central Standard
Time, georgenann@aol.com writes:</FONT></DIV></I></B></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0080ff face=Tahoma FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><I><FONT color=black face=arial><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 face=Arial><FONT size=4>Guys,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>RE: ACR blowers: CBS always had 3 or 4 spare blowers on
hand, they were rarely needed, also the machine shop rebuilt them on a couple
occasions. (Geniuses)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>When all 6 ACR's went into the dumpster, I gave a couple
blowers to one of the guys for his organ. (The one that makes music)! One
of the guys in my shop grabbed the spare blower motor, for his lathe.
One evening he came in with a suitcase in which he brought it home on the
LIRR.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I'm glad I retired before the blowers in the Archive AVR-1's
die. I tried to set the position of the pulley on one of them, but found
someone had put too much "Locktite" on the setscrews in the pulley. I
was able to loosen it by heating it with a small blowtorch, but it is now
frozen again and the setscrews are somewhat "Reamed out". Not to worry, the
guys in the machine have bailed maint. out of worse situations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>My earlier comment about blanking widths was not a joke, it
was serious business. Back when the FCC had nothing better to do than complain
about blanking widths (Was it 10.7us??) one of the managers who had heard some
of the "Buzzwords" about it had a meeting with me in which she asked me if the
blanking was OK on all of the ACR's. I explained to her that the tape
tensioning system on all of the ACR's was very good, perfectly servo
controlled so that if the widths were too short it would put a little extra
tension on the tape to make them a bit wider or if they were too wide - less
tension. She expressed great joy and thanked me very much for my
attention to this matter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Oh yes! Some time later after CBS had put in it's tape
distribution facility, (Lots of dubbing machines, NTSC, PAL conversions) which
is supposed to be making lots of money, I told her that we needed Time
Code converters for the PAL Digibets's, because "Over there in Europe, where
they use PAL, (I was pointing my finger twords New Jersey) they use "Zulu
Time" which is different than "American Time", and it must be converted to
"Zulu Time" or they can't use it there. She went to one of the guys in
Engineering and he told her that CBS ordered the Digibetas with the Pal Time
Code converter boards installed. Again she was quite pleased.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Years ago I had the occasion to do a couple of "Super Stars"
shoots (ABC) with the crew from WTVJ who did the taping, production, etc. I
went with a rented VPR-2 for maint. This was the first time a 1" tape
machine was being used on the show. WTVJ's tape Guru was one of the best in
the business named Don, (K4FBP) who is about my best friend. He is also
(almost) as good a joker as am I. After we got everything set up, there
was sort of a production meeting in the tape truck. Don was standing off
to one corner and spoke rather loudly to the director and told him "You Had
Better Watch Those Wide Shots". The director did a double take and asked him
"Why"? Don told him that we have a 1" machine in the truck and it can only
handle the narrow angle shots. For a brief moment the director stood frozen,
as he hadn't expected this curve ball. Then he caught on and the whole
truck broke up.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>There were also a bunch of BBC guys there and that was the
first time I tried the Time Code conversion gag, (On them) but they were
a sharp bunch and it didn't phase them at all, they saw the humer, I think,
but they have a very dry sense of humer to begin with.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I'm sure I will burn in Hell for some of these gags, if they
have internet there, I will let you know what it is like. I am used to this
Global Warming so it may not be so bad. HI</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>DE,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>George Keller<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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