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BBC 1 & 2 Engineering Closedown: Fri 7th Jan 05

(December 2004)

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MU
mulder
BillyH posted:
What the HECK is that on Two?
It's some sorta coloured bars type thing with 'BBC London TV Centre, CAR' at the top, a spinning oval in the middle with '-18dBF Source 16:9 6 2 5' in it, and www.bbc.co.uk in yellow at the bottom! It's just replaced a rather postage stamped PFC...


yes, that's what it said, and it'd be a circle on a 16:9 telly.
MU
mulder
Antz posted:
It was like that. Its now went to Testcard J here. Keeps going off though. Its also just went to a fuzzier picture of the card.


the switching off and fuzzier picture is because the signal is now comming from the nearest transmitter to the one you're getting your signal from, and that other transmitter is getting it's signal from the one nearest to it also, all the way back to London, which is why the picture has degraded.

EDIT: yes, it's confusing isn't it, especially the way i explain things Very Happy
AN
Ant
I don't know much about the technologies of Test Cards etc. Laughing When I seen the first card with the animated circle, I thought that it was a new Test Card taking over F/J/W.
MU
mulder
i wasn't too sure what that was either, i'm no expert, and I've never seen it before. wonder if it'll appear on bbc1 later on tonight?
DM
Dave M
Its back again:

http://www.assm69.dsl.pipex.com/bbctest.jpg
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A former member
And so, after a gap of aound 18 months, ThePotato returns to TVF... to find Ison a mod! - Good on ya Ison! Anyways.... *coughs*

Could "CAR" not stand for "Central Analogue Ring" - As in the ring main circuits used for transmission of TV round the BBC? Just a thought...
SD
sda|
ThePotato posted:
And so, after a gap of aound 18 months, ThePotato returns to TVF... to find Ison a mod! - Good on ya Ison! Anyways.... *coughs*

Could "CAR" not stand for "Central Analogue Ring" - As in the ring main circuits used for transmission of TV round the BBC? Just a thought...


It's been ages since I've seen your name about - welcome back!
GE
thegeek Founding member
Central Apparatus Room, surely.

I'd imagine the strange new test signal was coming from the shiny new Broadcast Centre, rather than TV Centre, across the road.

Incidentally, my TV's not usually tuned in for analogue, but the signal here in Glasgow isn't too bad - it's certainly quite watchable, with just a wee bit of ghosting. And that signal's come a long way from Croydon..
GE
thegeek Founding member
A few seconds after 3am, Pages from Ceefax returned, with a few jumps - presumably as transmitters along the line recieved their signal again from London, rather than the next TX along the line. It's stopped jumping now, at about 0302.
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A former member
thegeek posted:
Central Apparatus Room, surely.

I'd imagine the strange new test signal was coming from the shiny new Broadcast Centre, rather than TV Centre, across the road.

Incidentally, my TV's not usually tuned in for analogue, but the signal here in Glasgow isn't too bad - it's certainly quite watchable, with just a wee bit of ghosting. And that signal's come a long way from Croydon..


May well be, may well be. I'm just making guesses on various things... still, shows how bored I am at the moment (currently writing ISO's to CD to do an install of Fedora to my laptop) Embarassed - On a related note, the signal here from Winter Hill was very watchable indeedy, though I couldn't tell exactly how different from normal it was as my aerial has moved in the wind and my once pin-sharp reception is no longer pin-sharp. As most of my viewing is digital-only now, I don't notice it.
MU
mulder
pics and video of the strange test pattern on MHP PPs already.
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A former member
sda| posted:

It's been ages since I've seen your name about - welcome back!


Cheers sda! Smile - Long time, no see. I'm glad to see you're still around though.

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