Hi All, About Rose Parade, and another Color TV stories: Take a look at very nice Ed Retainer´s site: http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rose_parade.html TTFN, Jonas > Hi Larry, > > I was on the 1950 Rose Parade broadcast by KECA-TV. Have a lot of pictures > but all common equipment--RCA TK-30A cameras with the usual lens complement, > on with a Bach 3:1 zoom. TRT-1 microwave, RCA remote truck. I am in > Spokane, WA now but will be home in a week. Let me know if you want any > pictures of this stuff. > > Don > > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Larry Bloomfield > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:21 AM > To: Open DTV list > Subject: [opendtv] The Rose Parade > > 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. > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.