<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Good morning on this last Thursday in April, 2015.,</div><div><br></div><div>Hope all the QuadList's NAB 2015 attendees have recovered!</div><div><br></div><div>Here are a few pictures from the Quad Videotape Group annual Lunch at NAB:</div><div><br></div><div>Beginning with pictures of early 1970s Quad installations at</div><div> <a href="http://www.uhftelevision.com/articles/khof.html">KHOF-TV, 30, San Bernardino</a>, California's transmitter site </div><div>on Sunset Ridge above Claremont, California.</div><div></div><img id="84715ef7-b554-48e7-b4b2-0c319f927e0f" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:375F6255-4781-40B4-97A9-DC31E6349638@attlocal.net"><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://fbn.faithbroadcastingnetwork.info/khof_tv_photos01.html">fbn.faithbroadcastingnetwork.info/khof_tv_photos01.html</a></div><div>as shared by QuadList Member <a href="http://www.snelson.tv/">Joe Snelson, Jr.</a> (then KHOF-TV Maintenance Engineer, now </div><div>VP of Engineering, Meridth Local Media Group) </div><div></div><img id="4ba652ac-e93e-4ec7-9cc3-55626167d61f" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:21725410-4D72-4CEC-AE74-CC048AC97492@attlocal.net"><div></div><div>The Ampex VR-1000 was sold to Faith Center by RCA, which had taken the unit in trade from KOA-TV, Denver, Colorado. Inside the head cover was a note which said "Good Luck!"</div><div><br></div><div>Several Visual/Allen VA-50 Quad VTRs were added to the station's tech roster. </div><div><a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VisualElectronicsVA-50QuadAtKHOF-TV-San-Bernardino-BruceBraunCollection.jpg">http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/VisualElectronicsVA-50QuadAtKHOF-TV-San-Bernardino-BruceBraunCollection.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Joe had some comments about them, which I now wish I'd recorded. I'll have to ask for a refeed.</div><div><br></div><div>(Maybe next year we need to arrange for a big HDMI-capable TV set at wherever we meet?? Bring a thumb drive, iPad or laptop and narrate a presentation!)</div><div><br></div><div>A robust round-the-table discussion of a variety of things-Quad ensued...</div><div><br></div><div>Here's Joe with (L-R) </div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Ian Mackenzie from Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, Australia, </div><div>Park Seward, VideoPark, near Grants Pass, Oregon...</div></blockquote><div></div><img id="6f71d75c-7960-43be-844b-34e0d21f1aed" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9E6D5FF3-7A59-434F-A357-5FCE5AC16F11@attlocal.net"><div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Ian, fully visible</div><div></div></blockquote><img id="66ab8e2e-0984-47ca-9e8c-ae741b052380" height="300" width="200" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9654FF1C-724B-47EB-917F-A7287E6A6390@attlocal.net"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And around the rest of the table:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Mitch Hopper, Custom Video Systems, Rochester, Illinois,</div><div>Tim Stoffell, Ass't. Chief Engineer, KNPB, 5, Reno, Nevada and Quadruplex Park</div><div>(Ted's memory failed on the gentleman who has IVC-9000 experience between Tim and)</div><div>Mike Boland, founder, Boland Communications, Lake Forest, California</div></blockquote><div></div><img id="71fa0570-d726-42d2-9712-01904fc7270d" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C505F859-1899-4D98-B5FC-C8B09E1A3DC8@attlocal.net"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Standing: Shai Drori, Timeless Recordings, Modin, Israel/Chandler, Arizona</div><div><br></div><div>Seated: </div><div>Randy Hall, K7AGE, Producer, Vintage Videos, (recently retired Grass Valley Group Engineer) Grass Valley, California</div><div>Tom Sprague, National Boston, Co-founder, Museum of Broadcast Television, Woonsocket, Rhode Island,</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div></div><img id="6b3f7066-7d5c-4530-a0ee-a3c59325a1be" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F0D55A6C-12BC-4A35-8137-493F31E972D8@attlocal.net"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom on the left with (L-R)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>John Turner, Pres. Turner Engineering, Inc., Mountain Lakes, New Jersey</div><div>Ted Langdell, <a href="http://flashscan8.us/Zin">flashscan8.us/Zin</a> VTR Works, Secretary, Quad Videotape Group. Marysville, California</div><div>and Joe again...</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div></div><img id="6a4c744c-b323-4b36-a8b3-cbb29309bd8d" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C4A9B6DC-CAD1-4257-87DD-7CFA654628B1@attlocal.net"><div></div><div><br></div><div>Absent when these pictures were taken is Lou Claude, The Broadcast Store, Chatsworth, California.</div><div><br></div><div><br>If you want to see the VTR that stopped traffic at NAB... (at least in our part of Lower South Hall), click on this link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/flashscan8.us/photos/pcb.811227808945302/811222172279199/?type=1&theater">Traffic-Stopping VTR</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking ahead: </div><div><br></div><div><b>Mark your calendars NOW for the </b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><b>Ninth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB (2016):</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 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; "><div style="text-align: center;font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; "><b>12:30pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Las Vegas Convention Center</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><b><br></b></span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>NAB 2016 Free Exhibit Pass Code:</b></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div>NABShow 2016 Free Exhibits Pass Codes are already available: </div><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: proxima-nova, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16px; ">f<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><a href="http://lashscan8.us/MWA/Zin!">lashscan8.us/MWA/Zin!</a> VTR Works Guest Pass Code: LV3654</span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>Active use will be available in the fall, when NAB 2016 registration is opened. I'll advise when that happens. </div></blockquote></div><div><div><br></div><div><b>Any Cleveland, Ohio/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region QuadList members might want to note</b> </div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Second Annual Quad Videotape Group Dinner at SAA (Society of American Archivists)</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>7pm, Tuesday, August 18, 2015, near the Cleveland Convention Center</b></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><b>Portland area QuadList members may want to note:</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Dinner at AMIA </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(Association of Moving Image Archivists)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>7pm, Tuesday, November 18, 2015 </b></div><div><div><br></div><div>Details about the Cleveland and Portland dinners as the events get closer. (But farther in advance than our NAB location this year!)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers and good morning!</div><div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Ted</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><b>Ninth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB (2016):</b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><b>12:30pm on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Las Vegas Convention Center</b></span></div>
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