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<DIV><FONT size=4>George...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>WCIX-TV in Miami had a 1200E that was not only used direct to
air</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>from the studio, but it fit neatly in our Cortez Motor
home. We could</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>record in motion with the GE PE250 that was mounted up
front!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Very neat machine!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0080ff size=4 face=Tahoma FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><I>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
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/8/2010 3:58:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,
georgenann@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">I am impressed how so many of you guys remember not
only the model numbers of the helical machines but some of the history of
them. I always had trouble with model numbers, Revision Numbers, etc.</DIV>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both">CBS only went so far as the BVH-2000's after the
BVH-1100A's as far as I can remember, although there is one PAL VPR? not sure
of the number, which fortunately has been working OK at least till I
retired. There are a couple of BVH-3100's (?) around. I don't know
where they came from, perhaps a garage sale. They have the self threading
feature. I don't know anyone who had trouble with threading up tape and
it seems like a lot of work to come up with one of those. I didn't like
working on them because of the keypad on them. Almost everything I
needed to do was by inputting codes from that damn keypad, even putting it
into E-E. Fortunately there was one maint. tech who would bail me out as
she remembered the codes. When she wasn't around it was a pain as the
book was never in the same place twice.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Back to quads, before Ted fines us for chattering
about helicals.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">I ran into one neat machine. It is an
Ampex 1200-E with the flat deck. It belonged to Charlie (Chubby)
Salvato from Orange County, NY. It was put together by AF Assoc.
They installed Volvo motor mounts on it with wheels so it could be rolled
anywhere with just your fingertips. It also had no Amtec, Colortec,
Proc, etc. They put in a CVS Digital TBC, I don't remember the number,
but it had a "16" in it (I think). CVS had a mod for it to work with
Quads, it was a board which had to be installed in it. I remember taking
it to CVS to have it done for Chubby.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">This was done around the time the AVR-2 came
out. Ampex propaganda had fotos of 2 people picking up the top deck then
the TBC bay and showing how easy it was to move. Chubby bragged how easy this
machine is to move. A cavewoman could do it alone. He brought it to my
home from time to time so I could tweak the servo, etc. We just rolled it
in and out of his van easily. That was the only time I had a Quad in my
garage.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">It was so neat, it could be moved over bumps easily
and when it stopped it would just sit there and rock back and forth a couple
of times. Then all you had to is plug it in the wall, put video in and
record or take video from it, no need for sync gen. etc. (It still needed
air). I asked him about it some time ago, he said he sold it to a TV
station in P.R.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">By the way Chubby was known for his "Fire
Engine". He had a big fire engine with a 70 ft. or so ladder on it on
which he had a camera mount which he rented out for sport events.
Perhaps some of you have seen it. Last I heard, his son was running it
around for him.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">There was a BVT-2000 connected to the the Ampex
VR-2000's, before they were removed. It was used for SCH purposes as it
was feeding Betas and D-2's. I tried feeding the BVT-2000 right out of
the Demod, but it couldn't seem to handle the head switching. I tried
widening and increasing the switching suppression pulse but to no avail.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">Another interesting thing, sometime in the 80's, my
Navy Reserve unit was having a triple Retirement and Change of Command.
I was given the job of getting it done. I was able to get the
"Intrepid" in NYC for the ceremony. While schmoozing the
museum curator we came across a room full of 2" video tapes. He
told me they were recordings of flight ops. while she was in
commission. (One of the early uses of video tape was recording flight ops
on carriers so the pilots could watch their landings, and they still do.) Also
that he wanted to get them dubbed to U-Matic as he wanted to use them in
displays around the ship. (The machines they were recorded on were
gone.) I forgot all about the first thing I learned in the Navy, "Never
"Volunteer" and I offered to help him out. I also forgot how heavy a 2"
reel of tape can be after carrying them about a mile, from the Intrepid to
CBS, and back but I needed the exercise. I thought I was in deep trouble with
the first reel. I found they were recorded at 7.5 IPS. Would
you believe we also found some 5 Mil heads on the ship which were in good
shape. I put one on the Quad near my shop and had good luck with
it. The only problem is they were ball bearing heads and made about
10 DB more noise than the air bearing heads do and I was trying to do this
whole job un-noticed. Fortunately the maint. manager at time was interested in
WWII planes as his father worked for Grumman designing some of them and let me
get away with it for the small price of VHS copies of some of the tapes.
The tapes were fabulous. I managed to do about 50 reels for him. I don't know
what model VTR they were made on.</DIV>
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<DIV style="CLEAR: both">73,</DIV>
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