Lee Schaeffer
Videographer -- Media Specialist
2012 Christmas Letter
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Lee Schaeffer
1948 DuMont TV Camera 
Pictures of the WHHS 2009 Radio-TV Crew
Local Radio & TV Resources

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Scientific American - Air & Space - Videography - PhysOrg
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Teacher Magazine - Science Daily - EurekAlert!/AAAS

"I Touched the Future: I Taught." 
1992 Fellow of the
 Christa McAuliffe Institute
National Foundation for the Improvement of Education

Woodland Hills School District
(Formerly known as Churchill Area High School)
Football and Performing Arts Videographer

WHHS Football Network
2013 WHHS Football Schedule

Beulah Presbyterian Church
History & Cemetery
Blairsville

"Subvert   the  dominant   paradigm"
Each word above is a link  to a dictionary Web site.

AZD Sorority

CURIOSITY
 Mars Rover Mission  -  Phoenix Mars Lander
Reconnaissance Orbiter   - Daily Images
Saturn - Shuttle Missions -  Sightings
Hubble - Space Travel

   
Since May 18, 2004 View Visitors
First used NCSA Mosaic in 1992
On-line since 1993 starting at 300 BAUD
November 2006 - DSL
April 2011 - FiOS
Schaeffersite.com is ranked #13,129,355  
in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings.
Now #10,926,463 (Sept 2012)

Schaeffer's Laws
"People will congregate and talk in the most congested passageway."
"The softer the roll, the harder the butter."

If I Had My Life to Live Over.

DESIDERATA

Camp Michaux - My tribute to a forgotten place.    View Visitors
My pictures of the camp are in the new book
"SECRET WAR AT HOME"
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Jackson Falls - One of my favorite places near Apollo, PA -  Pictures & Video
Book features the falls! Which has my picture!
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National Museum of Broadcasting
Dedicated to Preserve the Birthplace of the Broadcasting Industry
We can use all the help we can get!  Donate your old radios.

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Ku Band, FTA and HDTV antennas     C-Band Dish
Latest Additions to the Antenna Farm 


My photograph of R. Buckminster Fuller 
  I spent three days as his host at Monmouth College in 1965

 See me for your   Personal History Videos
Ideal for: Family History - Anniversaries - Weddings - Graduations - Birthdays

Latest Adventures!
States Visited
States Visited: Travel - Extended Stays

Chemo2002-2003 -Chemotherapy at Hillman Cancer Center.
Completed the 18 chemotherapy treatments as a follow up to my "colon tuck" at UPMC.  Not as much fun as my successful back surgery for a herniated disk in 1996.
In good hands! Graphic Description!   
Colonoscopy exam!  If your over 50, have it done!
Watching Lord of the Rings DVD on my ald Dell laptop

           wpe3E.jpg (5724 bytes) Surgery to remove Benign Facial Tumor on salivary gland at UPMC Montefiore April 2005

The Schaeffer Family
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Lee and Debbie

Renee NicoleRenee Nicole Schaeffer
7 lb  1 oz.  Thursday at 9:11 PM
Magee-Womens Hospital

Pictures Renee & Emily

emily2_1.jpg (8198 bytes)Emily Catherine
6 lb. 13 oz.Thursday at 5:20 PM

Patches the Electric Cat
                        Patches -1984-2001
JUDY'S PAGE - Her Genealogy Page
Judy, Lee III, Cat & Family Pictures
2000 Christmas Letter With Links
Family History
History of the Family of Anthony Schaeffer 1744-1999
Henry Alvindore Schaeffer - How G.Grandfather won the Civil War!
Rev. Lee Schaeffer My fathers ministry
   Chartiers Hill Presbyterian Church - Where my father started his ministry
   Blairsville Presbyterian Church where I grew up

     My father became the pastor of Blairsville Presbyterian Church in December of 1950.  Thus began many years of shoveling walks, cutting grass, keeping the lights lit on the Christmas trees, running the PA system and all the other responsibilities and duties of the "The Preachers Kid." 

     One of the church Elders, Attorney Samuel Miller who lived above the old Blairsville Library, had one of the first 7" Hallicrafter televisions in town.   I coveted that set and now have two of them  in my collection of antique television equipment.

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Hallicrafter 505 circa 1949 with Channels #1-12

      About 1952 Attorney Miller purchased one of every known piece of audiovisual equipment as a gift for the church.  As a 10-year-old, I was delegated the assignment of figuring out all of this state-of-the-art technology! 

       The recording  the Christmas Service for the "shut-ins" was  father's first idea for the Ampro Tape Recorder.
I could not understand why all the people decorating the church were so interested in hearing their voices recorded and played back while I set up the machine.  It was not until years later when I became interested in the history of communications that I found that this was one of the first non-commercial recorders available.   While it was new to me, I did not realize that it was also new to all the adults as well.  

     These experiences eventually lead to degrees in The Physics at Monmouth College, Communications at Syracuse and a 32-year career as the technology coordinator for the Churchill/Woodland Hills Schools.

Computers I have Used

EDUCATION

Author of the famious Woodland Hills GRADE BOOK!
It did everything!  Grades - Statistics - Seating Charts - Cooperative Learning Groups
Unfortunatlly, I don't have enough years left to rewrite from Borland BASIC to Windows.

MY EDUCATION - SCHOOLS

         Published Letters to the Editor

"Bly was from Armstrong"  - Published in the Post-Gazette - Correction
"Army-Navy Football"         - Published in the January 2000 issue of Smithsonian - First use of video replay.

VIDEO & RADIO RESOURCES

 
Baird Mechanical TV Camera I found in the window of the "Logie Baird's Bar" in Edinburgh, Scotland
He lived in the same housing block as A.G. Bell across the street from our hotel.

Resources for High School Video Teachers
      A list television and radio resources and the history of radio and TV

How I installed a 10' Satellite Dish!
LyngSat North American Satelites
Ricks Satellite

Xcam Videobotics system  I installed at WHSD board room.

TV Listings
Comcast: Monroeville -   Excite
   WQED-TV : Schedules  -   KDKA : Schedules   -  WTAE : Schedules  -  WPXI : Schedules
   PBS-SD/DTV - PBS C-band  - PBS Satellite    --  DBS Satellites
    NASA Channel -Launch Dates - Space Tracker - Space History
   PCNC
  Northern Exposure - Episode Guide

INTERNET RADIO
  KQV Radio / Listen  -  WQED-FM / Listen   Concert Channel  -  WESA-FM : Listen / JAZZ Index / NPR News
  KDKA Radio /  Listen   -   WCPE / Listen : Wake Forest, NC (DBS Satellite radio) 
  WLFP - Listen (Woodland Hills Football games)  -  WMCR : Monmouth College
  Nation Station Listing

Know Your TV Color Bars

White

Yellow

Cyan

Green

Magenta

Red

Blue
R + G +B W - Blue W - Red Primary W- Green Primary Primary

Internet Search Engines

 

 

C/NET ULTIMATE LIST OF SEARCH ENGINES 

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Very close to the first train I had.
"By your links shall ye be known"

Weather

Every RADAR view is different.
Look at them all.
Make your own call!

The Weather Channel
Interactive Radar Map
Click & Zoom for maps and arial photos

WTAE - WPXI
    Mt. Washington Cam now in HD
Local Dopler Radar
Unisys Weather - Really detailed
NE Radar

Intillicast Weather - forecasts
   Radar -  Nexrad

PA Weather Cameras

Will Phil see his shadow! Official Site

NEWS

    CNN News   - Google News - ABC  -  USA Today  -  Washington Post  -  New Your Times
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Search) - Gateway Publications - Tribune Review -   KQV Radio (Listen)
    LiveLeak.com - Video clips
    NPR -  WMCR

 

Interesting places to visit

PITTSBURGH

GEOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES - Map and Driving Directions
Each map display is best for different things so try them all.

Address   City, State or ZIP  

JUST FOR FUN

 Programs and resources for constructing your own web page

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