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Offline lvmci

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #45 on: December 08, 2021, 11:02:53 AM »
An English built Pye scanner used for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, now in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
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Offline dtcerrato

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« Reply #46 on: December 08, 2021, 03:19:39 PM »
Makes sense to conduct from the roof - it lends a birdseye view. Also reminds me of when we steadied the Daytona 500 races every year back in the 70s-80s our nitch was in the infield on top of the motorhome, had a nice deck up there for lawn chairs, oh! & of coarse the cooler!  :)
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Re: TV buses
« Reply #47 on: May 25, 2022, 10:45:00 AM »
The first TV remote bus?
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Offline lvmci

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« Reply #48 on: May 31, 2022, 09:27:56 PM »
Crown or Gillig?
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Offline RJ Long

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #49 on: June 05, 2022, 11:28:49 PM »
Tom -

Those last two photos you posted are ACF Brill buses.

FWIW &HTH. . . ;)

RJ
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Re: TV buses
« Reply #50 on: August 22, 2022, 12:15:19 AM »
Miami TV bus...
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Offline lvmci

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #51 on: August 22, 2022, 09:11:57 AM »
NBC COLOR Bus, no other info...
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Offline lvmci

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #52 on: September 27, 2022, 03:29:23 PM »
October 18, 1952…RCA’s First Experimental Color Football Broadcast
Below is a rare look at RCA/NBC’s first color remote unit, used for this color-cast.
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Offline Jamo

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« Reply #53 on: September 28, 2022, 07:49:58 AM »
Cool.  My first thought was why a satellite dish in '52, were they ahead of NASA or just showing off?  Ha...
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« Reply #54 on: September 28, 2022, 09:17:43 AM »
Jamon. That's a microwave for live video and audio transmission, might also be a transceiver for communications...
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Re: TV buses
« Reply #55 on: November 25, 2022, 10:52:29 PM »
NBC color camera TV buses, setting up at a Orange Bowl parade 1965...
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Re: TV buses
« Reply #56 on: April 05, 2023, 08:04:07 PM »
WGN Chicago
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Re: TV buses
« Reply #57 on: April 10, 2023, 09:06:48 PM »
Maybe a Crown?
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Offline lvmci

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #58 on: September 06, 2023, 09:19:43 AM »
Live TV bus
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Offline lvmci

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Re: TV buses
« Reply #59 on: September 30, 2023, 06:10:25 PM »
December 12, 1937…America’s First Mobile Units Delivered

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