Hi all: Need your help! My good friend, former boss and now writer for the Tech-Notes, John Silva is putting together a story for us on the history of televising the Rose Parade. John was one of the engineers who did the very first televising of the Rose Parade when no one else was doing it. We’re looking at a report/story that will cover from the Iconoscope cameras through color and HDTV – home-brew microwave gear and more. We are looking for any pictures that might support this story. Most seem to have been lost. If you have any or know where we can get any that we can use, please help us. As I have told John, if we don’t get this recorded, it will be lost. We would also be interested in any anecdotal information that you may have on this subject matter. FYI: John Silva, in addition to many other firsts in the television industry, is the inventor the Telecopter, did the Lawrence Welk Show before it was ever on network TV and was very involved in the first televising of an atomic bomb blast from Nevada (see the most current edition of Tech-Notes). All of these stories have been in the Tech-Notes over the years. Thanks -- Larry Bloomfield - KA6UTC Bloomfield Enterprises, LLC 1980 25th St. - Florence, OR 97439 (541) 902-2424 (My Everything Phone #) WWW.Tech-Notes.TV See you on the Tech-Notes Taste of NAB 2006 Road Show ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.