<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The guessing game competition was fierce and friendly but the contest is now over.</div><div><br></div><div>The winner (who came within 250 miles) was Pat!</div><div><br></div><div>The station was KXAS-TV (formerly WBAP-TV) Fort Worth/Dallas. </div><div><br></div><div>All of those machines were gone by the early 90's as was most all other RCA and Ampex gear. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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<br><div><div>On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Pat McGowan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><style type="text/css">p { margin: 0; }</style><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">The head hours sure piled up on the B side of the TCR didn't they? Doing all the recording when dubbing. Should not be too hard to figure out which station--lists the HS-100 out on Baseball, that narrows it way down to a station that had both Ampex and RCA quads (not too many of those I'll wager) and a mobile unit with an HS-100.<br><br>Was NOT WGN, we had TCR's and HS-100 but no TR-70's.<br>KPRC had the TR-70's but no Ampex machines that I know of, so Chicago and Houston are off the list. Any other ideas?<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br><b>To: </b>quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, March 18, 2013 10:00:08 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[IS_SPAM] QuadList Digest, Vol 57, Issue 6<br><br>Send QuadList mailing list submissions to<br> quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> quadlist-request@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> quadlist-owner@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of QuadList digest..."<br><br><br>This is the Digest of the QuadList. 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Re: TV station engineering report (Ted Langdell)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:30:30 -0700<br>From: Dennis Ray Wingo <wingod@earthlink.net><br>To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] TV station engineering report<br>Message-ID: <F233AAC2-01D6-4B08-A517-883CC8CE7135@earthlink.net><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>Typical<br><br>No spare 2" on hand!<br><br>Says the former VTR operator....<br><br><br>On Mar 17, 2013, at 6:03 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Some might find this interesting. This is an engineering report at a TV station listing the status of various videotape machines on the date May 1, 1976. Note the combination of RCA and Ampex gear.<br>> <br>> <br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:58:56 -0700<br>From: David Crosthwait <david@dcvideo.com><br>To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] TV station engineering report<br>Message-ID: <11E716C6-0235-4126-A9E8-02E0C90CCED8@dcvideo.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>That was the "miracle of videotape": It could be erased and re-used. Any many stations did just that.<br><br>David <br><br>On Mar 17, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Dennis Ray Wingo wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Typical<br>> <br>> No spare 2" on hand!<br>> <br>> Says the former VTR operator....<br>> <br>> <br>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 6:03 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:<br>> <br>>> <br>>> Some might find this interesting. This is an engineering report at a TV station listing the status of various videotape machines on the date May 1, 1976. Note the combination of RCA and Ampex gear.<br>>> <br>>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ______________________________________________<br>> Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br>> <br>> Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>> http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com<br>> <br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/attachments/20130317/2855c791/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:33:13 -0700<br>From: Ted Langdell <ted@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] TV station engineering report<br>Message-ID:<br> <1E3132F7-163A-4504-B374-F8871BEA5CB0@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>David, <br><br>Are the numbers listed next to the individual Quads the total operating hours, total headwheel hours, or the hours on a specific headwheel that was on the machine at the time?<br><br>Ted<br><br>Ted Langdell<br>Secretary<br>Skype: TedLangdell<br>e-mail: ted@quadvideotapegroup.com<br><br><br>On Mar 17, 2013, at 6:03 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Some might find this interesting. 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