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Info wanted on Vintage Collins Console

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kemm92

For any fans of Vintage broadcast equipment, please check out this old console. <a href="http://www.trinityvalley.net/collins.htm">
http://www.trinityvalley.net/collins.htm</a>
I may have to put this in a garage sale soon!
 
> For any fans of Vintage broadcast equipment, please check
> out this old console.
> http://www.trinityvalley.net/collins.htm
> I may have to put this in a garage sale soon!
>
I kinda wish consoles were still made that way! These newer ones that are long wide and flat are in the way. I end up stacking all my papers and assorted flotsom on top of the controls. These older ones were designed to be back and out of the way while still within reach.
 
> WOW! I remember seeing a Collins console just like that one
> at WPTW,Piqua back in the 70s. How much???(just curious)
>
I recently had it up on ebay, but the reserve was not met. Top bid was 898. I'm doing a little more research trying to figure out what I should ask. And like I mentioned before on my ebay sale, I'd give it to the DFW radio station that gives me a full-time job!

Thing is, buyer will need to come get it. It's very heavy.
 
> That is older than anything I ever jockied. What a find!
>
>
>
> > For any fans of Vintage broadcast equipment, please check
> > out this old console.
> > http://www.trinityvalley.net/collins.htm
> > I may have to put this in a garage sale soon!

> >
Ah, the memories. The AM control room at KEEE in Nacogdoches had the same model console, along with three turn tables and four Collins cart machines. It was an old studio with creaky wooden floors but a lot of character--not to mention some of the characters who sat therein and went on to become known entities in major market radio.
>
 
IF I had my very own radio station..playing oldies on the AM dial...this would be the console I would use along with a vintage RCA carbon ribbon mike and the studio would look like one that was designed for use in the 1950s. I still would use Russco turntables and ITC triple decks for the sake of quick start up but the rest would be vintage 1950s. The coolest thing about this console is that it has a VU meter for the audition channel which you can also use to run FM programming while you're running AM programming. Quite a feat that WPTW used to do back in the day. Reds Baseball on AM and high school sports on FM. When I was in high school watching all this going on I was amazed the board operator didn't end up in the weedhaven laughing academy from all of the mental stress!

When there is no live jock..I would then use a Windows XP computer to babysit and run the graveyard shift..voice tracking optional.

> > That is older than anything I ever jockied. What a find!
> >
> >
> >
> > > For any fans of Vintage broadcast equipment, please
> check
> > > out this old console.
> > > http://www.trinityvalley.net/collins.htm
> > > I may have to put this in a garage sale soon!
>
> > >
> Ah, the memories. The AM control room at KEEE in
> Nacogdoches had the same model console, along with three
> turn tables and four Collins cart machines. It was an old
> studio with creaky wooden floors but a lot of character--not
> to mention some of the characters who sat therein and went
> on to become known entities in major market radio.
> >
>
 
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