RCA TK30 Remote System
On November 15, 2013
- TV History
RCA TK30 Remote System
From the 1949 RCA catalog, here’s what it took to do a two camera remote. Some don’t know that the TK30, as well as the TK10 and TK11/31 had a two part head. The bottom of the head is the camera itself and on top, the viewfinder. The TK30 field camera came out in the summer of 1946, a few months earlier than the TK10 studio camera which debuted in October. As far as I know, they used the same tubes and were practically identical inside but the TK30 could operate with less power.
Yikes! I’ve done remotes, out of a Gertz truck, with this same collection of RCA stuff at KWGN. I would take the viewfinder off and put the body over my shoulder and carry it up a ladder on top of press boxes the, go back for the veiwfinder and tripod + P&T head. Ii’s amazing what you can do when you are young…