Early Television Stations
RCZ
Moscow
Stations RCZ (video) and VCSPS
(audio) broadcast from Moscow from
1932 to 1937, and were probably the last mechanical station to leave the
air. It broadcast a 30 line, 12,5 fps picture with a 4:3 aspect ratio. A 1937 booklet described building a
scanning disk receiver for the station.
The following is from
Volume 2 of the Television Society Journal 1935-1938, in article titled
The Development of Television in the USSR by Dr Paul Shmakov:
At the
present time 30 line television is transmitted on even dates
from 2400 hours to 0100 hours, Moscow time, from the
broadcsting station RCZ (wave length 1107 meters) with sound
transmission from the station VCSPS (wave length 726
meters). The transmissions take place from the studio of the
Moscow radio Centre of the People's Commissariat for
Communication by the method of direct vision. The subjects
of the transmissions are singers, lecturers, musicians,
ballet dancers. The definition of the transmission has been
increased until it is now of an extremely satisfactory
quality. |
Courtesy of George Lemaster
From the same
publication, describing television transmission in 1932
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