2009 Early Television Convention

[zenithfan1]

Like I said earlier, here are a few pics of the back area where the auction and swap meet takes place. Good times here...............




One of the greatest places in the USA
I will remove any photos of persons not wanting to be photographed, I know some don't like it. Let me know.

[Tony V]

I would be in tv heaven in that room!
-Tony

[jhalphen]

Hi! to All,

My modest contribution to the ETF convention photo coverage:

Here, a pot-pourri of snapshots, TVs for sale, technical demos, some of the Museum's collections, portraits of convention-goers, etc.

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/k...phen/ETF-2009/

And here, the upload of the complete, commented presentation of the vintage CRT rebuilding process at RACS in France.

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/k...RACS%20France/

PS: not quite finished, 8 out of 12 subsections uploaded. Will be finished over the weekend.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

[zenithfan1]

Thanks! You took some great pics! You even got one of my Motorola 16" console set before I moved it to the van, the electrostatic Moto I won too. I meant to take pictures but didn't. But what? No pictures of me with my long hippy hair?? Oh wait, I have one of Steve D and myself, too bad I smiled after the flash. Trust me, I was happy as a pig in sh*t at the convention!..

[yagosaga]

Hi zenithfan1, hi Jerome,

thank you very much for all these impressive photos. I wish I can attend the convention in the future!

Kind regards,
Eckhard

[zenithfan1]

You're welcome, Eckhard. I'll look and see if I have anymore good ones to post. I took three times as many last year, this year I was too busy talking.
Mark

[Ray Sieracki]

When will the video coverage of the ETF conference be available?

[Eric H]

What is this thing??



I would love to go to the Convention and bring a truckload of jun... err merchandise. I'm afraid I'd leave with more than I brought though.

[yagosaga]

This is a replica of a neon lamp with LEDs for a mechanical television receiver with a Nipkow disk.

[Sandy G]

Nice to see that I'm not the only Certifiably Crazy person who has a strange affinity for these old One-Eyed Monsters...Misery loving Company and all, you know...(grin)

[tubesrule]

Originally Posted by Eric H

What is this thing??

You can see my LED arrays in operation here:
http://www.tech-retro.com/Aurora_Design/LED_Arrays.html

The original neon lamps are getting very hard to find and very expensive for the mechanical sets.

[old_tv_nut]

I am still on the road on business, but before I left Ohio I gave Steve McVoy a ton of photos as usual. He'll need some time to sort through and post some. I'll also forward them to Dave Sica in case he wants to post a different selection, after I get home.

Here to whet your appetite is a shot of Cliff Benham's color bars on a CBS color wheel and a 2-color color wheel. Source for the 3-color is NTSC converted to field sequential in Darryl Hock's converter. Cliff built the wheels, motor controls/sync and 2-color circuits.

Also notice the three-color waveform monitor made by viewing a white-phosphor scope through the wheel. lower left.
Cliff's stuff is amazing to see.

[zenithfan1]

Yep, the CBS wheel he made is the best one I have ever seen, no flicker. Just a PERFECT color picture, the scope is way cool too. I grabbed a few really good pics of it running. Well done Cliff!

[Steve McVoy]

I will be posting a bunch of photos soon.

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by Ray Sieracki

When will the video coverage of the ETF conference be available?

I got complete video coverage of the event and I'm working on making a DVD set now. It will be available on the Early Television website when it's ready.

Dave Sica