Hi Crusty, I see you are jumping over the “fence” to the broadcast side of the buisness. I was at the BBC from the end of 1980 till 1982. They did develope and make the electronic Test Card F under Richard Russell a well respected technical man. You do get the feeling that the BBC did all these technical developements but the IBA had their technical reserch labs at Teddington (Thames Television) and did many of these type of projects too.
There are alot of items that I have used in my broadcasting carrier included in this artical. The LS 5/9 monitor speakers were and are still used throughout the TV industry, these being manufactured by Rodgers amoungst others. I have a pair of the smaller LS 3/5As here in the workshop. The DOG was used by me when I was in the VTR department. Extended PAL was used by Channel 4 for a couple of years in about 1990.
It was hard to come by receivers. The Type 5 CMCR was not a BBC developed idea or truck. That honour goes to ABC Television. In 1966 ABC commisioned 3 of these trucks with the new feature of longitudinal gallarys, all OB vehicals had accross chassis control desks sharing the same monitor wall. The BBC put out a request for OB trucks to help with the 1966 world cup coveridge. ABC sent there first, just completed, truck to Wembley. I have said on many occasions that you would have herd the BBC’s engineering staffs jaws hitting the ground as this unit pulled into the Wembly car park.
Information on this truck design can be found on the BECGs web site, credit to them for the pictures, and well worth a read. These trucks, there were three of them, moved over to Thames Television on the change of franchise. I had the privalege of working with them on occasion when short of staff. There is a gentleman from the ITV labs doing a write up on these trucks, to put the record straight, which I am eagerly awaiting. If you can give me some contact details I’ll let you know when these are available.
Picture attached of the ABC truck when first built. I have loved my time working in Broadcast television, as well as my time in domestic repair and glad I took the step.
Not really jumping over to the other side as such, I just have an interest especially in some of the super interesting to me devices that the BBC came up with like the COW, GNAT (I believe Richard had a hand in all three) and of course as you already mentioned the electronic TCF. I would dearly love to obtain one or all of those for my museum but they’re rare and those that do exist are already in private or museum collections. Therefore I have to make do with my replica COW (via Pi),TCF (via IMOGen) and Teletext (via Pi).
Hi Crusty, I see you are jumping over the “fence” to the broadcast side of the buisness. I was at the BBC from the end of 1980 till 1982. They did develope and make the electronic Test Card F under Richard Russell a well respected technical man. You do get the feeling that the BBC did all these technical developements but the IBA had their technical reserch labs at Teddington (Thames Television) and did many of these type of projects too.
There are alot of items that I have used in my broadcasting carrier included in this artical. The LS 5/9 monitor speakers were and are still used throughout the TV industry, these being manufactured by Rodgers amoungst others. I have a pair of the smaller LS 3/5As here in the workshop. The DOG was used by me when I was in the VTR department. Extended PAL was used by Channel 4 for a couple of years in about 1990.
It was hard to come by receivers. The Type 5 CMCR was not a BBC developed idea or truck. That honour goes to ABC Television. In 1966 ABC commisioned 3 of these trucks with the new feature of longitudinal gallarys, all OB vehicals had accross chassis control desks sharing the same monitor wall. The BBC put out a request for OB trucks to help with the 1966 world cup coveridge. ABC sent there first, just completed, truck to Wembley. I have said on many occasions that you would have herd the BBC’s engineering staffs jaws hitting the ground as this unit pulled into the Wembly car park.
Information on this truck design can be found on the BECGs web site, credit to them for the pictures, and well worth a read. These trucks, there were three of them, moved over to Thames Television on the change of franchise. I had the privalege of working with them on occasion when short of staff. There is a gentleman from the ITV labs doing a write up on these trucks, to put the record straight, which I am eagerly awaiting. If you can give me some contact details I’ll let you know when these are available.
Picture attached of the ABC truck when first built. I have loved my time working in Broadcast television, as well as my time in domestic repair and glad I took the step.
Not really jumping over to the other side as such, I just have an interest especially in some of the super interesting to me devices that the BBC came up with like the COW, GNAT (I believe Richard had a hand in all three) and of course as you already mentioned the electronic TCF. I would dearly love to obtain one or all of those for my museum but they’re rare and those that do exist are already in private or museum collections. Therefore I have to make do with my replica COW (via Pi),TCF (via IMOGen) and Teletext (via Pi).