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10th Jul 2021, 4:54 pm | #1 |
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Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Worth watching for some nostalgia on the equipment that was used.
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10th Jul 2021, 8:22 pm | #2 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Which film was it?
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10th Jul 2021, 9:59 pm | #3 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Mystery!
I wonder if he was referring to one of the colour test films. "Network" (AEI 1962) comes to mind. I don't think the whole ships company had to observe the three minute 500kHz silence period though! https://youtu.be/XFp-Pmg2Jjk?list=PL...avW4twmW&t=139
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11th Jul 2021, 9:48 am | #4 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
It's one of the BBC2 Trade tests circa 1960's early 70's.
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13th Jul 2021, 7:40 pm | #5 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
What is the loudspeaking telephone showed at 8:11 - I have not seen that before?
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13th Jul 2021, 7:47 pm | #6 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
can anyone identify the title of the film referred to
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13th Jul 2021, 8:10 pm | #7 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Network.
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13th Jul 2021, 10:06 pm | #8 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
thanks for the name Lawrence I have tried to find a link to something I can watch but failed. I gather it was an AEI film made in 1962. Cheers, Chris G0EYO
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13th Jul 2021, 11:21 pm | #9 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
I posted a link to the film on Monday at 10pm. Pretty good going I thought, given what I had to go on, but I remember the film well.
The radio shack on the Badagry Palm was equipped with a scrambler, what the captain called an "inverter" but in all my time as an SWL in the 60s & 70s, I can't recall a ship and shore station negotiating a private link in the way shown in the film. (Not that a simple speech inverter would have added much security).
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14th Jul 2021, 7:51 am | #10 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Thanks Graham, I missed that message (old age!). Chris G0EYO
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14th Jul 2021, 8:35 am | #11 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Well! In all my years of watching Trade Tests as a wee apprentice, I can't recall ever seeing this one!
EDIT. Ah, I see it wasn't shown after 1968, just before I started work at the TV shop.
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14th Jul 2021, 3:08 pm | #12 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
I started in the servicing trade in 1961, though never remember that trade Test film.
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16th Jul 2021, 11:07 pm | #13 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
I remember it well, could almost repeat the script.
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18th Jul 2021, 10:28 am | #14 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
I really enjoyed watching that. Thanks to all who identified it. 73 Chris G0EYO
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18th Jul 2021, 12:14 pm | #15 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Those trade test broadcasts worked.
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18th Jul 2021, 1:10 pm | #16 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Switch off
Isolate Dump Earth I wonder how many times I watched that and The Home Made Car and The Captive River and Giuseppina and Atlantic Parks and Evoluon and..... Lawrence. |
18th Jul 2021, 1:12 pm | #17 |
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Re: Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film
Close enough I suppose, You could have done worse though,
"It's the ****** coil". Or worse still, spit into your morning porridge and say "Testing for temperature was still rudimentary" PS Even the ****** forum has censored me!
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