{"id":5112,"date":"2012-06-09T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:42:38","slug":"look-at-my-wonderful-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/look-at-my-wonderful-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at my wonderful tubes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I found this promotional picture in an old NAB conference technical papers book dating to 1969:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RCA TT-30FL promotional picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So here we see an obviously qualified and appropriately dressed technician gesturing to all the components she is about to install in the transmitter behind her. I wish I worked there.  No, wait, I wish I had that transmitter and perhaps this fetching young woman would come and work at my station.  Well, hell, I don’t need a TV transmitter, just the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how many of these rigs RCA sold before the broadcast division went out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By way of reference, the RCA TT-30FL is a VHF television transmitter, 30 KW peak visual power, 7.5 KW peak audio power, air-cooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this promotional picture in an old NAB conference technical papers book dating to 1969: So here we see an obviously qualified and appropriately dressed technician gesturing to all the components she is about to install in the transmitter behind her. I wish I worked there.  No, wait, I wish I had that transmitter … Continue reading Look at my wonderful tubes!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[81,305,246,106,55],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-funnies","tag-humor","tag-rca","tag-tube","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}