One of the major TV stations here in Los Angeles is KTLA, on channel 5. Klaus Landsberg, a ham (but call sign unknown) was the first chief engineer, and designed the station back in the 1940s.
I recently found a writeup of the early days, and page 2 shows the early antenna design. Klaus came up with a very interesting way to get a wide bandwidth: Look at the bottom of page 2 of this file: <http://web.mac.com/zcleve/KlausTribute/KLStories_files/Silva-RoseParade.pdf> Another image of the aural antenna is the second image from the bottom here: <http://www.earlytelevision.org/w6xyz.html> The bottom paragraph of text is incorrect. The hoop antenna is mounted above the platform visible in the bottom image. Other info here: <http://web.mac.com/zcleve/KlausTribute/KlausHome.html> and <http://web.mac.com/zcleve/KlausTribute/KLStories.html> The Stan Chambers writeup is especially interesting. For those that are unaware of it, Stan has been continuously employed by KTLA since 1947 - that's over 60 years at the same station. He's over 80 years old and still goes out on field news assignments.Can anybody in broadcasting top that? He's seen it all - from the early spinning disk experiments to seeing Klaus Landsberg - a ham - invent the studio to transmitter link to the first flying remote (the "Telecopter" in 1958) to today's HD cameras that fit in your hand. ( <http://www.tech-notes.tv/Archive/tech_notes_139.pdf> starting on page 11 ) His 1947 live reports from a electroplating plant explosion become the world's first on-the-spot news coverage. His 1949 on-scene continuous 27½-hour report of the attempt to rescue 3-year-old Kathy Fiscus from an abandoned 14 inch well demonstrated how TV could show live news - until then TV was just evening entertainment. (his grandson, Jaime Chambers, became a reporter at KTLA in 2003, and has two children of his own) Mike
