<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(Woonsocket, RI)—More than 80 people—including New York SMPTE Section members from NYC and Connecticut—got a chance to see restored Quad VTR's at work as the New England Section of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, SBE Chapter 11 and Mass. Broadcasters Assn. took a special trip in June.</div><div><br></div><div>They toured the Museum of Broadcast Technology in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with museum co-founder and QuadList member Tom Sprague explaining repairs to the FM section of a TR-70 that allowed it to be playing tape. Tom also told about the late 1970s high-banding of the museum's Ampex VR-1000HB.</div><div><br></div><div>One RCA TR-600 was working next to an idle sibling, an RCA-TPR-10 portable Quad was on display, among other machines the museum has. </div><div><br></div><div>A number of cameras were working, enabling a bit of "hands-on," including RCA TK-44As that long-time network and now ESPN engineer and MBT's Jay Ballard has been nursing back into operation. TK-47s were also working.</div><div><br></div><div>An RCA film island was also in operation, featuring TP-7 slide and TP-66 16mm film projectors feeding a TP-55 multiplexer seen by a TK-28B film pickup camera.</div><div><br></div><div>Visitors were treated to some meaty material during a light buffet: Video and film clips from the late Joe Rozien's collection. </div><div><br></div><div>Those included Editec and VTR enhancement demos from 1958-9, and the entire 1959 "Kitchen Debate" captured by an RCA TK-41 and recorded by an Ampex VR-1000.</div><div><br></div><div>Rozien's home movies of the setup for the Moscow showcase helped show what it took to accomplish that in 1959.</div><div><br></div><div>The museum is saving a venerable collection of television gear in an apt location: The former Woonsocket Institute for Savings. The former bank's large vault stores the museum's collection of manuals and spare parts.</div><div><br></div><div>See pictures and more here: <a href="http://www.smpte-ne.org/lastmeeting.html">http://www.smpte-ne.org/lastmeeting.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note that if that link is replaced by the September meeting, you may be able to find the page by starting here: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.smpte-ne.org/">http://www.smpte-ne.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Fast-forward to the September meeting, which was a presentation of 4K Digital Cinematography by Sony.</div><div><br></div><div>The next meeting continues to show how far electronic image-making has come: Advanced Video Codecs and DSLR Cinematography. 6:30pm doors open on Oct. 17 at Rule Camera in Boston.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone should bring a VR-3000 and PCP-90 for comparison.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div>
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