Paul writes:
Latest photo – I managed a few more hours today.
Fourth Vivat PWM Part 2
Paul writes:
Whist waiting for answers to some ‘real work’ questions, I’ve gone for ‘first light’ on the PWM.
Fourth Vivat PWM
Paul writes:
This weekend I’ve been working on the ‘final’ Vivat PWM – this is the ‘US spec’ one that we changed the mains transformer on. The electrolytic capacitors are stamped ‘1953’, so it’s a good early one from MkII days.
Ex BBC Type 5 for Channel 4’s Big Breakfast
Alan Taylor sent us these pictures of the former BBC LO-4 Type 5 scanner being hoisted into the garden of the Lock Keeper’s Cottage at Bow.
Continue reading “Ex BBC Type 5 for Channel 4’s Big Breakfast”
Carry on Trucking
Carry on Trucking – Jeffrey Borinsky
While many enthusiasts collect radios and televisions, broadcasting equipment is a more neglected area. The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (BECG) is a group of people who rescue, restore and conserve historic UK television equipment, focusing on the engineering aspects. We aim to use this to present television history to the public. Continue reading “Carry on Trucking”
How engineers kept Z Cars on the road
Dan Cranefield writes about the time that MCR23 was pressed into service when the LMCR was damaged.
Project Vivat pages moved
We have moved the content of the old “projectvivat.co.uk” site to the BECG website so it will be kept with all our other projects. The old site will be redirected to this one in due course.
Please see the “Project Vivat” page for the entry point to the pages.
Scale Models
We’ve added a new “Scale Models” page which shows off various modelling skills, from commercially available items, via modified items to “scratch built” models.
Privacy policy updated
We have added “Koko Analytics” to the website to collect anonymised visitor statistics, this does NOT use Google. Please see the Privacy Policy page for more details.
New articles
Some new articles have been added recently.
Making Old Television Technology Make Sense by Paul Marshall discusses, how material artefacts can help us understand television’s history more fully.
Dan Cranefield, Senior Engineering Manager, BBC Tel OBs and ex BBC Radio Links has kindly sent us a couple of articles with accompanying photos: The Royal Wedding of July 1986 which discusses the use of the (unfinished) Type 6 Scanner and Radio Links from Outside Broadcasts in the 1960s which shows the time before satellite uplinks came into use.