I received the following message this morning.

To: Indiana Historical Radio Society members

Regarding: Peter and Edna Yanczer

In February of this year IHRS member Edna Yanczer passed away at her home.
We just received a notice that following a two week stay in hospice, Peter
died on March 16, 2014. Peter and Edna have been members of the Indiana
Historical Radio Society for close to forty years. Edna will be remembered
for her outgoing personality and her willingness to help out where ever
possible at vintage radio gatherings. Peter was noted for his exceptional
skills in radio, television, and electro-mechanical restorations (television
experimenters.com). Edna was 87, Peter would have been 87 the end of April.
The Yanzcer team will be missed.

Looks like he had an interesting collection of tv stuff.....

The Mirror Screw tv was something I am not familiar with.....

Good reading......

http://televisionexperimenters.com/Mirror_Screw_History_1.html

I hope this site will be kept up, it has very interesting stuff.....

This page is very cool.....

http://televisionexperimenters.com/Motor_Drive.html

Thanks for putting this up rid-tv ! !

The TV collector/historical community lost a couple of GOOD ONES there.. RIP, Mr & Mrs Yanczer..

To insure the continuity of Peter's web site, it is now hosted on the ETF site.

To insure the continuity of Peter's web site, it is now hosted on the ETF site.

Well if you are going to do that, and take it off of yahoo, then make some SEO improvements so it can be found in google for those interested in learning about tv history.... Begin by adding a real page title, not "page title" as it is on each page.... and add a description tag different for each page supporting the page title.....

http://televisionexperimenters.com/Mirror_Screw_History_1.html

This page title should be something like "The Mirror Screw type of mechanical television"

A description may be "In the 1920's there were two types of mechanical televisions under development The Spinning Disk, and the Mirror Screw."

And turn "The MIRROR SCREW Mechanical Television, and its Place in Television History" into a H1 tag.....

A page set up like this will show up in searches for "mechanical Television"

Do the same with appropriate wording for each other page.....

RIP Peter and Edna.

Username1, the ETF pages on mechanical TV come up #2,3,4 and 5 in a Google search for mechanical television (#1 is Wikipedia). There are prominent links to Peter's site on those pages. I have added page titles to each of Peter's pages.

Username1, the ETF pages on mechanical TV come up #2,3,4 and 5 in a Google search for mechanical television (#1 is Wikipedia). There are prominent links to Peter's site on those pages. I have added page titles to each of Peter's pages.

I see, I only up till now visited his original site on yahoo. I see you added page titles to the copy on etf.....

Your searches are tainted by your browser history, as is all of us who constantly look for old tv stuff. Google knows what to feed us..... A new searcher would most likely see what is in these pictures....

I read an article on mechanical television in the 80s in one of the old newsletters; I believer Peter wrote it. I sent him a SASE (remember those?) and got back a nice bunch of info. Way over my head at the time to ever hope to build one myself, not much better today! He contributed much.

yah, he sure looks like he got into mechanical tvs....

I read several of his website pages today, very very good stuff.....

It was Peter Yanczer's and James Hawes website that got me interested in mechanical tv. I ended up posting some youtube videos on 24 line mechanical television a few years ago.

I have a mechanical tv and camera kit I purchased from Peter years ago. Peter started a mechanical TV group back around the year 2000 which lasted formally for about two years. There was the NBTV (Narrow Band TV) group in the UK for mechanical TV but no US based group. Peter wrote a quarterly news lettter with mechanical TV articles for about two years when the group was in existence. I have the news letters in storage somewhere and will have to dig them out someday. I was reading about early mechanical TV in the late 1990s and Peter's name kept coming up as the US authority on the subject. At Peter's first mechanical TV club meeting in Missouri there was a member from the UK who actually had worked in Baird's TV lab in the 1930s. He knew Peter from all his work in the UK NBTV mechanical TV group.

It looks like they contributed a lot to the early TV community. A sad loss.