The window and sound barrier was built to cut the very high noise of the transmitter blowers. They were so loud that after an 8 hour shift it effected your brain in such a way that you could not focus your eyes. |
Roy O'Brady made himself comfortable between meter readings every hour on the hour. In those days the FCC required there be an engineer on duty at the transmitter. Remote control was not alowed. |
Flying spot scanner control, color monitor, and vacuum tube stand-by sync generator. The Microwave Studio-Transmitter-Link (STL) would not pass color so the color film chain was at the transmitter along with a switcher to go back and forth to the studios on campus. |
On the right side is a color film chain using a "flying spot scanner", a lost technology. A picture tube was used as the light source which was focused through the film onto three photo electric cells, one for each primary color.
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