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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On the Kearsarge CVS-33 in 1969, we had the Ampex
VR1200 (PLAT -Pilot Landing Television).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The VTR room was on the 02 level just below the
flight deck, right near our ships television studio and the 24 hour ships
entertainment disk jockey booth.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Up on the island, outside was a small platform
deck, with an RCA TK-10 camera and all landings were recorded, for pilot
review, as well as accident investigation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Our ships entertainment television had the standard
studio with Sony cameras (B&W), lighting and used Ampex VR7800 1 inch
helical VTR's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tapes came from North Island at San Diego every
week with all of the 3 network world news and prime time shows.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Those Ampex 7800 (dogs) needed twice as much
technical attention to keep them going, than "any" quad machine
ever.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I used to rob transistors out of sono-buoy's
from our S2-F sub trackers, to keep those things running. All you had to do was
sneeze and a video head would go bad.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I once made the mistake of asking Charlie Ginsburg
at Ampex, if he had worked on the design those machines...I got a very sharp and
curt response back "I had nothing !!!...to do with that program".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A year on the Kearsarge was one of my most
memorable ships in my eight and a half years of Navy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Steve Spears</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Orrs Island, Maine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>