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1965: Early Wireless Microphones

wireless_Mics_2Download a 3pp article from B.E , 1965, on the subject of wireless microphones used for broadcast reporting.  Author is R Fetterman.  BTW: is that a large collection of RCA OP-7’s pictured above?

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One reply on “1965: Early Wireless Microphones”

Nope, those mixers are Collins 212-Z, the nearly-indestructible field mixer. Maybe it’s the metal knobs, but it seems like more of those have survived than anything else. The RCA OP-07 was twice the size, the Gates units were not as solid and only the rich stations got Western Electric.

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