The Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two more BBC trucks have been added to the projects page:
We’ve been mentioned on BBC West Midlands and Birmingham City University’s Twitter feeds and on the BBC West Midlands website!
https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcmtd/status/1195372728351637505
https://mobile.twitter.com/BCUPressOffice/status/1195399110473457675
It’s not too late to get a free ticket to the Kaleidoscope event “Colour TV comes to town” tomorrow at Birmingham City University.
Tickets are still available from the Eventbrite website here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-tv-comes-to-town-tickets-75577425113
We will be on Central News from 6pm tonight, live from Birmingham City University for the Kaleidoscope event “Colour TV comes to town”.
A recent addition to the website, but a vehicle we have been involved with for a few years is EHX86V, one of The BBC Type 5 units, designated LO6 or CMCR20.
See the project page for more details.
See our restored Southern Television Outside Broadcast vehicle with working period equipment dating from 1968 at Burton Waters Marina near Lincoln on Saturday 15th June.
See the “Events” page for more information.