Tube camera shown at NAB 2005

[George, K2XL]

For those of you interested in old tube video equipment here are some pics from the NAB.

Can ya spot the SS device ?

http://2x2l.com/nabcam_pg/index.htm

[Bacon, WA3WDR]

I don't know whose camera was used, but I remember a broadcast of an early-early-morning NASA launch back in the late 50s, and the camera wasn't warmed up yet.  Focus was terrible, but it got better as time went by.

[Bill, KD0HG]

For those of you interested in old tube video equipment here are some pics from the NAB.

Can ya spot the SS device ?

http://2x2l.com/nabcam_pg/index.htm

Excellent pix! Thanks.

Last year I rescued a meter panel and a few other parts from an early 1950s RCA TV transmitter; I was working at an an FM transmitter site and the TV engineers were tearing apart their long unused first TV transmitter. Thing was built like a battleship and it must have taken a full-time person to keep the thing  tuned and in alignment.

Now I have to ponder, one more time, what the heck and how in the world did RCA go down so quickly. They literally *were* TV for many years.
Incredible.

..

[Rob K2CU]

As a former RCA emplyee....in two words... "bean counters"

[wa2zdy]

We had a monster like that in use on ATV at my high school radio club in the late 1970's.  I never tinkered with it, but I remember it was marked CBS and the guys who did use it were among the brighter guys in the club.

Fond memories.