ETF - 2010 Convention

2010 Early Television Convention

The 2010 Early Television Convention was held on Friday, April 23, Saturday, April 24, and Sunday, April 25 at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, Ohio. The buffet lunch, presentations, and banquet were at the Makoy Center, a conference facility about 2 blocks from the museum.

Attendance was about 105 collectors, slightly higher than last year. We will post a report on the convenion soon. The most exciting news was the demonstration of a successful rebuild of a 15GP22 by RACS of France.

Thanks to the following people for all their help (please forgive me if I forgot anyone)::

Publicity: John Pickney
Auction setup: Chuck Azzalina, Darryl Hock
Videotaping and streaming: Dave Sica, Mark Patoray
Auction help: Chuck Azzalina, Darryl Hock, John Tyminski
Auctioneer: Don Saltzman
Makoy Center setup: Dave Sica, Mark Patoray, Darryl Hock
PC operation at Makoy: Darryl Hock
MC at presentations: Don Saltzman
Collecting donations: John Folsom
Setup of color sets: Pete Deksnis, Steve Kissinger
Color wheel sets: Cliff Benham
Bringing things from the Sarnoff Library: Dave Sica, John Tyminski
Loan of video projector and sound system: Ron Steinberg
Bringing projector and sound system to the Convention: Bob Galanter
Photography: Wayne Bretl
All sorts of things: Larry McIntyre

Pictures

Replays of Convention Videos

Report by Richard Diehl

Here is a list of the presentations:

Arrival of Home Video Tape, 1956 to 1976	Richard Diehl
Selecting Modern Filters for Color Wheel Displays	Cliff Benham
Rebuilding the 15GP22	John Folsom and Bob Galanter
RACS Progress in Rebuilding the 15GP22	Jerome Halphen
The WGSF Mobile Production Van	Leland Hubbell

Displays

A successfully restored 15GP22 in a CT-100 chassis brought by Pete Deksnis was displayed.

John Folsom displayed flybacks he has made for early color sets.

Julian Burke displayed his 1955 DuMont Electronicam (serial #1). There were only 3 sold and the only customer was Jackie Gleason Enterprises.

Geoff Bourne displayed his 1939 RCA studio camera

John Folsom displayed his Mitsubishi 6CT-338 Triniscope

Cliff Benham displayed his 'no-wheel' CBS tri-color CRT set with some new additions that allow it to display both CBS color and two-color sequential images and a Butterfield "color" camera and a small B&W monitor for it.

Dave Abramson displayed his Indextron tube sets.

Here is the schedule:

Events in gray were at the museum. Those in green were at the Makoy Center

Friday, April 23

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Meet other collectors at the museum. Beer, wine, soft drinks.

Saturday, April 24

7:30 am – 8:30 am	Swap Meet setup
8:30 am – 11:00 am	Registration and Swap Meet
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Silent Auction
10:00 am - 11:45 am	Live Auction
12:00 noon – 12:30 pm	Buffet Lunch
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Presentations
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm	Break
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm	Presentations
4:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors
About 5:30 pm	Silent Auction closes
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Banquet

Sunday, April 25

10:00 am – 3:00 pm	Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors. Demonstration of sets in the Museum’s collection.
11:00 am - 12 noon	Meeting of those interested in establishing a CRT rebuilding operation at the museum
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Panel Discussion - Recollections of the WGSF mobile van

Here is information on the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Conventions.