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Old 10th Jul 2021, 4:54 pm   #1
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Default Vintage ships radio comms old BBC2 film

Worth watching for some nostalgia on the equipment that was used.
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Which film was it?
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Old 10th Jul 2021, 9:59 pm   #3
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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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Old 11th Jul 2021, 9:48 am   #4
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It's one of the BBC2 Trade tests circa 1960's early 70's.
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What is the loudspeaking telephone showed at 8:11 - I have not seen that before?
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Old 13th Jul 2021, 7:47 pm   #6
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can anyone identify the title of the film referred to
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Network.

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Old 13th Jul 2021, 10:06 pm   #8
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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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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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Old 14th Jul 2021, 7:51 am   #10
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Thanks Graham, I missed that message (old age!). Chris G0EYO
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Old 14th Jul 2021, 8:35 am   #11
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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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I started in the servicing trade in 1961, though never remember that trade Test film.
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I remember it well, could almost repeat the script.
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Old 18th Jul 2021, 10:28 am   #14
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I really enjoyed watching that. Thanks to all who identified it. 73 Chris G0EYO
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Those trade test broadcasts worked.

"Switch off!" I shouted, when something was going wrong.

"Insulate, dump and earth." responded my mother.

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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.....

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post

"Insulate, dump and earth." responded my mother.

David
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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