23-10-2016, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-10-2016, 10:22 AM by Thunderbird.)
Ahhh memories.
Mrs Chopper and I lived in View Ave the year of the very first Indy.
As I lived in "the precinct" my boss said for the week I was to "look after" all the gear that I was supposed to look after but just within the precinct as it was damn near impossible to get my work truck out of our front gate.
I found the uhf uplink from the cameras and stuff, the raw feed.
I tuned an old modified TV to the frequency and watched that out on our front deck as it was way more interesting than the sanitised version that went to air.
They were still setting up when I first found the frequency and I saw them testing the zoom on the back straight by zooming into the girls on the beach. I went and had a look at the zoom, it said 52x zoom on it.
We could hear all the comments to and from the camera crews
It was great having the cars zoom past our front gate and seeing all the stuff we werent supposed to see.
I still have an unused "residents pack" from that event too.
The following year I scored primo tickets for mrs Chopper and I and even got the royal treatment being picked up in a tinny and taken to an airconditioned hut filled with TVs and other gear and treated to a free BBQ as well. We also got gold seating and tried to watch from those seats but it was a waste of time, more fun watching the wall of TVs from the trackside hut.
Mrs Chopper and I lived in View Ave the year of the very first Indy.
As I lived in "the precinct" my boss said for the week I was to "look after" all the gear that I was supposed to look after but just within the precinct as it was damn near impossible to get my work truck out of our front gate.
I found the uhf uplink from the cameras and stuff, the raw feed.
I tuned an old modified TV to the frequency and watched that out on our front deck as it was way more interesting than the sanitised version that went to air.
They were still setting up when I first found the frequency and I saw them testing the zoom on the back straight by zooming into the girls on the beach. I went and had a look at the zoom, it said 52x zoom on it.
We could hear all the comments to and from the camera crews
It was great having the cars zoom past our front gate and seeing all the stuff we werent supposed to see.
I still have an unused "residents pack" from that event too.
The following year I scored primo tickets for mrs Chopper and I and even got the royal treatment being picked up in a tinny and taken to an airconditioned hut filled with TVs and other gear and treated to a free BBQ as well. We also got gold seating and tried to watch from those seats but it was a waste of time, more fun watching the wall of TVs from the trackside hut.
"If a clutered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign." Albert Einstein
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!