Experimental work with W6XAH was primitive and was done with a limited budget and limited equipment. The Schamblin brothers were able to produce basic television images but they were only able to be received in the vicinity of the studio and only a few homes had televisions receiving signals in those days. People gathered on the sidewalk outside the studios to watch the experimental broadcasts on television monitors that had been set up. It is also interesting to note these experiments took place before there were radio stations in Bakersfield.

Broadcasts varied and included musical groups such as local dance bands. My grandfather, Al Randour was a member of the "Moonlight Serenaders" band that Mr. Frank Schamblin had organized which was one of the groups appearing on W6XAH. In addition, people made appearances during broadcasts to talk about community events. Local historian Richard C. Bailey gave talks on Kern County (Bakersfield is the county seat) history as well.

Because of limited funding and technical problems with these television experiments, efforts were discontinued that same year. However, the Schamblin family then started KPMC (the PMC was for Pioneer Mercantile Company) radio in 1933. This radio station broadcasted at 1560 A M very close to the 1550 A M frequency used as the audio channel for W6XAH during the television experiments. The station was affiliated with the CBS and Mutual Radio Networks. In 1978, the radio station was sold to Dan B. Speare Broadcast Enterprises which operated KPMC until the station was again sold in the 1990s to Buckley Radio of Connecticut which owns radio stations across the U.S.

The builders altered a standard Jenkins transmitter scanner by adding a new disc of 32 apertures, rotated 60 times per second; 3 rotations were required to produce each of the final 96-line frames, with 20 such frames per second. The increase in picture lines was accomplished without the necessity of adding additional frequency bandwidth to the assigned 100 kHz. (normally able to accommodate only a 60-line frame) by using a new single sideband suppressed carried technique. A variant of this method, vestigial sideband transmission, is the standard employed in current American television broadcasting.

Jasper McCrillis helped me find my TV school and a place to live in Kansas City, and he met me at Union Station in Kansas City when I arrived to attend First National. He was several months ahead of me so left before I finished First National TV.

When Jasper finished FNT, he went to work for KPMC in Bakersfield, California.  A friend of De Forest, Ralph Lamert, was operating television station W6XAH for KPMC.

When I visited Jasper in Bakersfield, he was working for KPMC in the same building where the television station equipment was placed. I missed seeing Dr De Forest and Lamert who were in and out of there.

As we entered the KPMC building, we saw a near life size picture of DeForest holding his triode.

Jasper showed me a booth with a window opening into the projection room. The opening was framed by a four-sided light trough with clusters of bare bulbs. Head and shoulders would show in the window. The intense light reflected into a photoelectric cell through the spinning disk.

The other camera was a more conventional flying spot scanner. Jasper and I preferred the cooler flying spot. One advantage was that the photoelectric cells were open all the time gathering the sparse light. This also allowed two banks of cells to watch at once. These were at the focal point of concave reflectors the size of auto headlights of the period. Five or six reflectors and cells made up a bank.

The effect was that one bank collected illumination from the left side and one from the right side of the object. An operator manned each bank so as to balance the image. They moved the banks laterally, along overhead tracks and pivoted the banks as one would adjust spotlights on a stage. Problems included narrow bandwidth amplifiers and limited broadcast channel width.

When everything was operating at optimum, one could recognize a familiar face. (if it was solo) a quartet was unrecognizable.

The TV station may have been off the air when I visited KPMC, but the equipment was still there.