Radio daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

Section of RADIO DAILY. Monday, November 14. 1949 Credits Top TV Service To RMA Town Meets Washington Bureau of RADIO DAILY Washington — ■ The training and education of TV servicemen is five years ahead of what it would be were it not for the RMA Town Meetings, president R. C. Sprague, of Sprague Electric Co., said at a town meeting for servicemen here in the Washington area. This was the seventh such session in the past two years, with over 800 servicemen turning out for the three evening sessions. Sprague is chairman of the RMA Town Meetings Committee. Calls lob "Tremendous" In opening the three-day session Sprague declared, "At the time this committee took on the project of helping the radio technician upgrade himself to television, there was little realization in the industry — from technicians to manufacturer — of the tremendous educational job involved. Neither did the industry realize that the center of importance had shifted from the salesman to the technician. "As a result of these 'town meetings,' our educational activities today are at least five years ahead of where they would have been otherwise. Individual manufacturers, the trade press, and other services have, I believe, been stimulated to extend help to technicians in a manner that is an example for all American industry." ERGIREERS— CORSULTRRTS RALPH B. AUSTRIAN Television Consultant 1270 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS NEW YORK 20, N. Y. Tel.: CO. 5-6848 A. R. BITTER Consulting Radio Engineers 4125 MONROE STREET TOLEDO 6, OHIO Tel.: Kingswood 7631 W!LLIAM L. FOSS, Inc. Formerly Colton & Fosi, Inc. 927 15thSt.,N.W. REpublic3883 WASHINGTON, D. C. ((■■ Revolutionary new attachments for all types of TV lights have been installed in the studios of WCAU-TV , Philadelphia. The "skyhook" lights enable engineers to secure many lighting effects which previously required much testing and presetting. Lights are attached to overhead power rails and may be suspended or angulated in any direction, plus moved to any direction on the power rails. One man can set the studio lighting in a matter of a minute or two. Introduce 16MM & TV Improved Sound Track A new type of sound track, which offers substantial improvement in the reproduction of sound with average 16-mm projectors and TV has been introduced by J. A. Maurer, Inc., Long Island City, N. Y. In this new track, the familiar bilateral type of recording in a single line is replaced by a group of six smaller VA tracks, each a duplicate of the other and one-sixth the width normally employed. The multiple track thus contains twelve simultaneously modulated, identical areas. Capodan no Joins Emerson As Dir. Of Engineering R. T. Capodanno has been appointed director of engineering at Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, Dorman D. Israel, executive vice-president of the company, has announced. Capodanno was associated with Philco for the past eleven years, where he was active in government projects and in developing home, auto and radio receiver designs. Prior to this, he was connected with the University of Illinois, Physiological-Psychology Department. PRODUCTIOn PARADE A Technical Story The job of telling a technical story in simple terms is done graphically in a three-color, four-page folder announcing American Structural Products Company's new rectangular television bulb. American Structural is an Owens-Illinois Glass Company subsidiary. The folder, written for tube and set manufacturers, shows dramatically why the rectangular bulb is the only bulb that uses all the viewing surface, gets all the picture and provides for reduction of cabinet size. Dimensional drawings are included. New Flex Lite Aero-Motive Manufacturing Company announces a new addition to their line of Flex Lites, namely a combination Flex Lite and Extension Cord Trouble Lite to work on 110 volts in place of flashlight batteries. Service men in many fields have long wanted a small trouble light that would fold up compactly enough to be carried in a service man's tool kit. The new model 110 comes equipped with a Flex Extension approximately 12 inches long and a neopreme service cord 12 feet long. CBS Lensless Lens For Gridiron Telecast TV football fans who will follow the Columbia University Brown football game from Baker Field, New York, next Saturday, Nov. 19 (CBS-TV, starting at 1:20 p.m.) on their video sets, should have a better-than-front-row seat, if all claims made by CBS-TV for a new lensless lens to be used for the first time by the network shape up to expectations. Designed By Dr. Back The revolutionary new lens, Video-Reflector, designed by Dr. Frank G. Back, creator of the Zoomar lens, is a 40-inch lensless lens, designed to bring sharp close-ups of sports and news events to the nation's home TV screens. In the new Video-Reflector lensless lens, the optical trick is accomplished with mirrors. There is not a lens element in the entire system. Four special reflectors bounce the light beams back and forth to obtain magnification so high that the figure of a man more than a block away from a TV camera completely fills the screen of a TV receiver. Up until now, extra-long-focus telephoto lenses were out of the question for TV pickups. A lens with a focal length of 25 inches (which by old standards meant that it had to be at least 25 inches long) were about the longest that could be used. ERGIREERSC0RSULTRRTS McNARY & WRATHALL RADIO ENGINEERS 906 Natl. Press Bldg. 1407 Pacific Ave. Washington 4, D C. Santa Cruz, Cal. Member AFCCE L. W. ANDREWS, INC. RADIO CONSULTANTS 219 WHITAKER BLDG. DAVENPORT, IOWA Phone 2-7824 GEORGE P. 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