<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The Early Television Foundation Convention is getting underway today in Hilliard, Ohio.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/2011_convention.html">http://www.earlytelevision.org/2011_convention.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The presentations look quite interesting, and are by some folks you likely know from these lists:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td width="571"><strong>Granville Klink’s Wonderful Collection of Broadcasting Memorabilia and His Involvement in Early Television</strong></td><td>James O'Neal</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Intermediate Vintage Television Restoration Techniques</strong></td><td>Lee Barmakian</td></tr><tr><td><strong>60th Anniversary of RCA/NBC's Famous Walkie-Lookie or Peepy-Creepy Backpack C</strong><b>amera/Transmitter</b></td><td width="192">Gary Davis</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Bypassing the RF/IF Sections in Antique TV Sets</strong></td><td>Wayne Abare</td></tr><tr><td><strong>AT&T Picturephone Service of the 1970s</strong></td><td width="192">Richard Diehl<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><br></div><div>I hope the presentations are being streamed again this year. I enjoyed being able to watch last year. </div><div><br></div><div>It'd be good to see Richard Diehl via Long Distance... by the internet version of Picturephone.</div><div><br></div><div>And source tells me that there's something special in James O'Neal's presentation about "Granny" Klink, the former CE of WTOP, Washington, D. C. It might color your thinking about early TV.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps someone can post some video of and from Chuck Pharis's working TK-11/31 camera chain that's on display along with these fine examples of TV history:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div align="center"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td>Varian 925-40 helium leak dector (finds leaks in 15G and 21AX tubes) - Bob Galanter</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/silvertone.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Silvertone 126-214</a> (TT-5) - Darryl Hock</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/philco_7in_prewar.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Philco 1942 table model</a> - Chuck Azzalina</td></tr><tr><td>East German SECAM set (Color 20) - Ingo Kubbe</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/picturephone.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; ">AT&T Picturephone</a> and <a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/sony_cv2000.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Sony CV-2000</a> engineering prototype home video tape recorder - Richard Deihl</td></tr><tr><td>Lighted Signs - Mike Molnar</td></tr><tr><td>Color Drum Receiver - Cliff Benham</td></tr><tr><td>Working TK11/31 Camera Chain - Chuck Pharis<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Sunday, attendees will be treated to a restoration workshop, and demonstrations of how to rebuild CRT's by one of the last picture tube rebuilders in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like a lot of fun in Ohio.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><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 for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </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; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</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); "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"><u>ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</u></a></font></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>