[BC] RCA History earliest transmitter

[Scott Fybush]

>
> Didn't Townsend build a TV transmitter ?  I think they may have picked up
> the Ampex
> venture into transmitters ?  Seems to me I saw one in Milwaukee back in
> the
> 1980's.
> NEC TV transmitter was (and may still be used) by WBBM-TV in Chicago. I
> believe it
> was the only one sold in the United States.

KTTV in LA has an NEC, though I don't think it's in operation any longer.
I saw one other NEC in the last few months, but I'll be darned if I can
remember where it was now.

Wasn't it NEC that had the manual warning that if contact is made with the
high-voltage supply inside, "the soul of the engineer will ascend to
heaven"? Nothing like a poet writing (or translating) warning labels...

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