[BC] RCA History earliest transmitter

[James Somich]

Saw an NEC UHF transmitter in very nice condition in Seattle a few years
back. I'll bet its still in operation, but I can't remember the call
letters.  It even had the original NEC exciter!

 I took an old NEC out of Manassas Va. a few years back and it went to the
landfill. It was a very well made box.

I was working for KMET when Bill Blacksher at KTTV installed the NEC. He was
high on the transmitter and liked it better than anything else on the market
at that time.

I believe CCA picked up the Ampex line. George Townsend designed his own
transmitter.

Gene Scott's old UHF (CH-31?) in L.A. had a home-made transmitter that was
modeled after an RCA. They used an old Ampex exciter.


On 12/29/06, Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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...
>
> s
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