Blimey yer showin yer age Arfa!..


Coal scuttle Murphy, Regentone 10-4, Pye 11, Murphy 849 (remember the
flywheel sync diode FSX2442A ? ), all valve colour sets with PD500 shunt
stabilisers guaranteed to fry your gonads with x rays, BRC 2000's , 3000's,
3500's, 8000's with syclops, and in my opinion, the best colour set of its
day, the Rank A823 chassis. Oh happy days in gentler times ... :-)


Used to be mainly Phillips on rental but some BRC stuff plus all the
others for repair.. 405 line dual standard remember soldering over all
those system switches when we finally went all UHF in the area;!..

Whilst showing my age, sad day yesterday, when Sandy Heath analogue was
taken off the air. I was there when it came on the air, when it had it's
coax blasted by lightning, when it's replacement piece caused the auto SWR
trip to periodically shut down the transmitter ... The company that I
worked for was a 'trusted' workshop by the IBA, and they installed a check
receiver at our place, to monitor the field strength on a chart recorder. It
was my job to check the tuning each morning when I got into work, by
sticking on a pair of headphones, and peaking the sync buzz.


We used to look after the Cambridge channel 2 405 transmitter as they
couldn't monitor it back at Peterbourgh. We got the number of Sandy
heath in later years but they didn't like us tellin them there were any
faults with it!..



And now it's gone ... :-(


Remember working on the Sudbury Transmitters back around the early late
60's early 70's UHF 77 series IIRC..

Sandy was all Marconi but I believe the channel 4 was a TVT 'mitter but
I'd left there by then..



I was always taught to put a
screwdriver through a few remaining turns on the original open circuit
section of dropper, in case it should remake.

Well never knew that to happen once gone they seemed to burn themselves
out from what I remember of it....

You sometimes saw ones with no evidence of a burn up, and I guess that they
might have failed right where the resistance wire joined the tag, so might
just conceivably 'remake' at some point in the future. I guess that was the
thinking behind it. Definitely one of those 'apprentice' things that I was
taught, and continued to pass on to others.

Arfa


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Tony Sayer

(Didn't we both used to write for TeleMag at the same time a few years back
?)

No not me..
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Tony Sayer