[TowerTalk] Pan,zoom,tilt camera on tower

[Jim Brown]

Hi Joe,

In a long ago life ('70s), I designed security systems like the one you 
used at work, to be installed by the small company that I worked for. 
This industrial-grade stuff had cameras mounted in WX-proof enclosures 
mounted on PTZ units -- three separate products from three different 
mfrs. Those cameras used vidicons. :) I suspect something similar is 
done today at industrial level, and there may be products that integrate 
all three functions. I would also expect there to be integrated consumer 
products.

73, Jim K9YC

On 9/4/2020 8:15 AM, Joe Drennan wrote:
> I would also be interested in anyone’s thoughts on a camera on top of the tower.
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> Many years ago I had a security job for a couple of weeks at the Colosseum here in Denver. My shift a couple of times was using the security camera they had outside on a tall pole.
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> This camera had a tremendous zoom and was used to keep a lookout on all the parking lots around the Colosseum and we’ll see what the crowns were doing. You can actually zoom into somebody’s car in the parking lot hundreds of feet away and see if they were drinking a beer or smoking a joint.
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