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<DIV>What gave it away is the style of the mix handle. RCA all the
way.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is a RCA PTS-1 Switcher model 8/6D</DIV>
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<DIV>RCA sold this in the educational market. They called it Professional
equipment. </DIV>
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<DIV>It is a Ball effects panel at the top right.</DIV>
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<DIV>What is unusual is that the switcher is a non-composite switcher. The
top A B buss were the mix effects that fed the wipe and key generator. The
upper right panel did the control of that buss.</DIV>
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<DIV>The output was fed to the MIX only buss in the center. The delay was
matched so that you could dissolve in a key or wipe.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lastly, the busses fed the COMPOSITE switches at the lower right.
Here would be the early quad machine or helical that was not locked to
house or the network feed. </DIV>
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<DIV>RCA built this from little modules that were jumped together with little
cables that had phono connectors at each end. These would fit on a 1 RU
tray with three modules per tray. </DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
<DIV>WA8IGN</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/24/2011 11:57:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dwnorwood@embarqmail.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>David's pic of the TE-60 reminded me of a system that I
thought was interesting because of an uncharacteristic design feature for the
manufacturer, and maybe a bit more difficult to identify. It was
definitely quad era, and I've seen one feeding a VR-1100.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>1) Who made this switcher</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>2) What was the model number</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>3) What's unusual about it</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A title=http://www.digitrakcom.com/ href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/">www.digitrakcom.com</A></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Please
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