<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Sections 2 & 3 about the Library of Congress' Culpeper facility are being reviewed for accuracy... so we move on to Section 4.</div><div><br></div><div>Our Third Annual Quad Videotape Group Dinner at AMIA was set for Tuesday night during the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference in Philadelphia, Nov. 2-7.</div><div><br></div><div>We have pictures... but we'll start with one from before I got to Philadelphia.</div><div><br></div><div>Driving north from Cincinnati toward Columbus, OH, any broadcaster should stop and check out this broadcasting landmark: The site of the only 500,000 watt US licensed AM broadcast station.</div></div><div><br></div><div>And when stopping at (now only) 50KW ND <a href="http://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/cinc/wlwpix.htm"><b>WLW (AM) 710</b></a>, Cincinnati's<b> </b><a href="http://hawkins.pair.com/blaw-knox.html"><b>Blaw-Knox Tower</b></a> in Mason, OH we discover it's getting new guy wires. Look to the left of the tower's lower section and you'll see the first replacement being hoisted.</div><div><br></div><div><img height="640" width="433" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:B85E644E-14B0-4E46-B808-3AEA485CBA73@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>On Tuesday, Nov. 1, QuadList members gathered at the Loew's Philadelphia Hotel Sole Food Restaurant before heading to Dinner. </div><div><br></div><div>Quad was a table topic, and there was this late-to-the-party salesman trying to peddle VR-2000's with a 1964 flip book, just to the left of the QuadReel. Several RCA Broadcast News editions were also being passed around. One was the 1959 introduction of RCA Television Tape, and the others had items about TCR-100 cart machines.</div><div><br></div><div>L-Right: Gary Adams, DaVinci Systems, Rob Mobley, Mobley Post near Orlando, Florida, James Snyder, Library of Congress NAVCC, Steve Greene, National Archives and Records Admin., and the always in motion David Crosthwait, <a href="http://www.dcvideo.com"><b>DC Video</b></a>, Burbank.</div><div><br></div><div><img height="429" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FA888A17-D439-459B-B778-592C9203C2C8@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday's Dinner at the <a href="http://www.whitedog.com/"><b>White Dog Cafe</b></a> in Philadelphia was something to definitely go back for. Melt in your <a href="http://www.whitedog.com/menus/dinner.pdf">mouth meats</a>, among other things that elicit lengthy discourse and fond memories. And large credit card charges :()</div><div><br></div><div>I had the Heirloom Apple Walnut Salad, Green Meadow Farm Filet and Sweet Potato Puree as both a side and dessert! Would like to repeat that soon! Or try something else!</div><div><br></div><div>L to R: Jim McGuian, Video Sys. Engineer, <a href="http://www.georgeblood.com"><b>George Blood Audio</b></a>, Philadelphia. He's supervising the restoration of a number of AVR series machines, including 1's, 2's and 3's late of QuadOne in Burbank. </div><div><br></div><div>Rounding out the table, Rob Mobley, George Blood, David Crosthwait (end of table). George Greene is to the left of David, hidden by James Snyder. Then there's me and Gary Adams. We appear to be eating the same food.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://culture.alberta.ca/archives/"><b>Alberta Archives</b></a>' Tom Bernier snapped this from his end of the table with my Nikon D40x. </div><div><img height="429" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:6AAE98A7-19CC-4136-9936-EB9423A7C715@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>And David Crosthwait shot this angle with his iPhone:</div><div>Clockwise L-R: Steve Greene, James Snyder, Ted Langdell trying to get the label up on the QuadReel, Gary Adams, Tom Brunier, George Blood Audio/Video Engineer "Tad" Tadashi Matsuura, Jim McGuian, Rob Mobley and George Blood.</div><div><img height="478" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D477C511-DBCD-4131-86DA-7FA263E8FD8C@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>A good bit of the conversation related to the underlying thread of the Conference... digitization, codecs, where and how to store those bits.</div><div><br></div><div>James Snyder was looking ahead to NAB... as captured in an iPhone video by David Crosthwait.</div><div><br></div><div>That and more from Philadelphia in Section 5!\</div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>