NAEB Engineering Newsletter (Feb 1955)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

7 - members to ask if they had a surplus FM antenna to take care of the WUOA request. However we can make use of NAEB and the Newsletter to make availabilities and wants known to all members. T Jhy not try it?™ x x x *- x x * x x x Setchell Carlson, Inc., New Brighton, St. Paul 12, Minnesota, manufactures a 17 inch television monitor, Model K£6, which sells for 0199 less audio or j2lU with audio. It features unit construction with the main power supply permanently attached to the main chassis and three plug-in units: 1) Horizontal oscillator and high-voltage section, 2) Video amplifier, sync separator and sync control amplifier, 3) Vertical oscillator and output and audio amplifier, if desired. It is enclosed in a gray metallic finished plywood cabinet and uses a 17KPh picture tube. Audio output is 1.7 watts at hOO cycles at less than 10 % distortion. These monitors are being used at KUOM and WHA-TV in case you want opinions of their suitability. x x -x- x x x x x x x x Weston Electrical Instrument Co., Newark 5>, N.J., makes a TV studio Lightmeter Model 9l£ TV which lists at 00. It has two ranges 0-300 foot candles for normal lighting for black and white TV and a range of 0-1^00 foot candles for the higher illumination levels required in color TV. It is an incident light meter whose acceptance angle exceeds 180 degrees. FROM THE FCC The 31st and 32nd construction permits for educational television stations were granted recently by the Federal Communications Commission. The CP*s went to the Detroit Educational Television Foundation and the Oklahoma Educational Tele¬ vision Authority respectively. The Oklahoma CP is for a station in Tulsa on Channel 11. The Oklahoma ETV Authority has been previously granted a CP for a Channel 13 outlet at Oklahoma City. The Michigan State Board of Agriculture has asked the FCC to designate commercial VHF Channel 10, assigned to Parma-Onandaga, Mich., as a non-commercial educational channel in connection with a proposed channel and location switch for WKAR-TV. WKAR-TV noitf operates non-commercial on UHF .Channel 60 at East Lansing. The Alabama Educational Television Commission has applied to the FCC for an edu¬ cational, non-commercial TV station on Channel 10 at Birmingham, Ala. ENGINEERING WORKSHOP ROSIER COMPLETE Twenty-six engineers itfill be attending the NAEB Television Engineering Workshop in the New York area October 19-27. Of this group, three are from educational TV stations now on the air, ten are from stations having construction permits, seven are from institutions having closed circuit TV installations, and four are active in helping plan details of educational stations and networks. The workshop is given an international flavor by the attendance of Gerard Colliot of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise. Last October M, Colliot was chosen for a year*s study in the United States under the Work Study Training for Productivity Program (WSTP) sponsored by the Foreign Operations Administration (FOA) of the U. S. Government and the French Government, He will return to France at the con¬ clusion of the workshop.