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CONVENTION EXHIBITS
Latest developments in broadcasting equipment and services will be shown in Exhibition Hall and explained by company personnel in hospitality suites around the Conrad Hilton Hotel during the NAB April 3-6 convention in Chicago. All equipment exhibits are located
in Exhibition Hall, on the lower lobby level. Program and film service groups will be located all over the hotel and in the neighboring Sheraton Blackstone.
Following are summaries of the individual exhibits to be shown in Exhibition Hall:
Equipment manufacturers
ABLER ELECTRONIC INC.
Space 24
Adler's equipment and displays will include its RT-3 heterodyne repeater, tv microwave system for off-air pickup, intercity relaying, tv-STL and remote pickups; UST-10. 10 w translator, FCC-approved, for extending tv station coverage to unserved areas; RA-7, 100 w translatoramplifier, claimed by Adler to be the first FCC-approved equipment for extruding translator coverage to larger unserved communities.
UST-100, 100 w uhf tv transmitter for serving communities with locally originated programs; unitized uhf antennas, for tv translators and upper uhf frequency transmitters, may be stacked horizontally or vertically for any desired gain or coverage pattern; VCA-1 low noise vhf preamplifier, for use in weak signal areas by translators.
Displays include a map of the location of translators which have added 214 million people to the audience of 100 tv stations: an educational tv rebroadcast system for western North Carolina; and an inter-city tv microwave system.
Personnel: Ben Adler, Alfred Strogoff, Stanley Lapin, Emanuel Strunin, Edward Galuska. Hanry Shapiro, Mel Berstler, John Klindworth, L.A. Wallace, Robert Sinks. Willard Colvin, Arthur Turner, Roy Bright, Joseph DeBragga, James P. Quinn. Don Carmichael, Martin Silver.
ALBION OPTICAL CO.
Space 39N
Albion will display Taylor-Hobson, England, professional lenses for motion pictures and tv. Included will be the Cooke Speed Panchro, Kinetal and Ortal lenses, Varotal lenses, studio and outside broadcast lenses, and servo controlled variable focal length lenses.
Taylor-Hobson studio and outside broadcast zoom lenses will be displayed in operation on various tv cameras at the RCA, Ampex. and E.M.I. (Telechrome) booths.
Personnel: Benjamin Berg, Arthur ChalHnor. M. Stechly.
ALFORD MFG. CO.
Space 25
Alford manufactures tv broadcast antennas, diplexers, coaxial switches. The display will feature tv broadcast antennas and the recently marketed 3Vs in. coaxial switch.
Personnel: Harold H. Leach, Thomas E. MacKenzie.
ALTO FONIC TAPE SERVICE
Space 45N
Personnel: D. Allen Clark, Walter Merila
AMPEX CORP.
Space 32
A completely equipped tv studio for color and black-and-white program production will be operated during the convention. It will include Marconi IV cameras. Latest techniques in tape operation of tv stations will be demonstrated, including playback of tapes of various picture standards used around the world.
Do-it-yourself machines will give broadcasters a chance to operate vtr equipment. A mobile Videotape unit will be exhibited. The audio recorders will feature the full-track and two-channel machines (Model 351), a two and four-track stereo reproducer (Model 352-2/4) and a three-channel master recorder (Model 300-3).
An Ampex recorder (Model 351) will be mounted on a shaker table as a torture test. A recording head with 30,000 hours service will be displayed. Ampex plans a hospitality suite (505-A).
Joseph Roizen, manager of application engineering for the video division, will deliver a paper at the Engineering Conference on maintenance of the Videotape recorders.
A new tv tape system giving the viewer a far better picture will be demonstrated in the exhibit. Other displays include stillframe viewing of recorded tapes, special effects equipment and intersynchronization of multiple sources for electronic editing into a composite tape.
Personnel: George I. Long Jr., Robert L. Sackman, Phillip L. Gundy, Neal K. McNaughten, Charles P. Ginsburg, A. R. Hopkins, Thad Holt, Bob Paulson, Gerry Miller, Warren Anderson, Don Truax, Bob Baker, Rein Narma, Mark Woodworth, Bill Fink, Bob May, Don Power, Anthony Beddow, Marcel Greffard, Thomas Pressley, Jack Woolley, Jack Miller, Ellis Walker, Denis Waitley, Marty Anderson, Ross Snyder, Eldon Brown, Don Kleffman, Jack Neitlich, Tony Severdia, Chuck Swisher, Joe Roizen, Charles Riley, Cyril Teed, Bill Barnhart, Harold Clark, Byrne Hull, Charles Crum, Harold Hummel, C. E. Anderson, Paul Tarrodaychik, Sid Damron, Roger Hibbard, Don Horstkorta, Stan Younger, Emil Trojack, Mike Maryatt, Alex Maxey, Jack Hauser, Tom Merson, Russ Ide, Bob
Day, Russ Baker, Frank Gonzalez Jr., Russ Williams, Len Hase, Milton Norton, Francis Nault, Jack Flynn, Donald Creswell, Ken Herring, Lou MacDonald, Al Slater, Henry Davis, Jack Harvey, Frank Benson, Charles McNamee, Lewis Parson, Jules Joslow, Eugene Sudduth, Ed Aleks, Bill Wallace.
BAUER ELECTRONICS CORP.
Space 38N
Model 707 1000/250 w "Bauer Kit" transmitter will be displayed. Claimed to be the first "assemble-your-own" transmitter developed for broadcast industry, an assembled kit will be on display.
Display will also include pictorial exhibit of FB-5000-J 5000 w am transmitter.
Personnel: Fritz Bauer, Paul Gregg, Duncan Peckham.
BOGEN-PRESTO DIV.
(Siegler Corp.) Space 46N
Products to be shown include tape and disc recorders, and amplifiers and turntables.
Personnel: Thomas L. Aye, Lawrence E. Epstein.
CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO.
Space 36
Diesel and natural gas sets for primary or standby power will be displayed. Caterpillar manufactures, besides tractors and graders, diesel industrial and marine engines and sets and maintains international distribution with some 145 dealers and 800 branches throughout the world. The company is a radio-tv advertiser.
Personnel: C. U. Stone, D. U. Shupp, R. V. Bradley and B. P. Bessert.
CELLOMATIC CORP.
Space 37 N
Cellomatic Corp. will demonstrate three new projectors to introduce new types of projection equipment for television stations, all of which will be on a rear projection screen.
Personnel: Thomas Howell, Milt Rogin, William Walsh, Owen Zapel, and Ernest Vetter.
COLLINS RADIO CO.
Space 34
A number of new broadcast items will be introduced by Collins featuring new editions and additions to the automation system, various other newly developed equipments plus new engineering units
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BROADCASTING, Morch 28, 1960