21x19cm 68g

‘BBC Television and Radio Stations’

36 pages (sides) glossy paper, green card cover with photo of newly opened Holme Moss, stapled, very small print (looks about 6 point)

Published by the Engineering Information Department, Room 708, Henry Wood House, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, W1A 1AA; Printed at BBC ETD Woodnorton; May 1985.

‘However much time and trouble we spend in making programmes , it is all wasted unless people can receive them. This little booklet is designed to assist in this, listing all the domestic broadcasting services we provide and the transmitters from which they can be received. Together with the general advice in the opening pages, I hope this will help everyone to get the programmes they want with the best possible quality’ – T B McCrirrick, Director of Engineering (those were the days!)

Contents: Notes - Radio and Television services, Transmitter planning standards, Population coverage, Self-help television, Good reception, Radio in the nineties, Engineering information addresses, ‘Service information’, Transmitter service area maps; Transmitter Data – Television, VHF radio, VHF local radio, LF and MF radio, MF local radio; Transmitter Location Maps – Television, VHF radio, Regional and local radio, LF and MF radio; General data – Frequencies and wavelengths, Television receiving aerial groups, Limits of broadcasting bands, Television channels and carrier frequencies, Locations of transmitting stations with National Grid References.

PLUS

‘Receiving London – Aerials’

7 pages (sides), white paper, loose-leaf

Published by the Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation, External Broadcasting, PO Box &c, Bush House, London, WC2B 4PI (ie the BBC World Service)

Technical illustrated descriptions of the design of aerials to receive BBC radio over the whole world – vertical rod, horizontal wire, sloping wire, T aerial, inverted L, horizontal dipole, long wire, inverted V, rhombic, transistor radio aerials.

Double page spread of a world map showing the bearing TO London from any part of the world – generally known as an E A Reeve’s Rugby Diagram – this is not at all intuitative and is a VERY curious map.

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‘Receiving London – Receivers’

7 pages (sides), white paper, loose-leaf

Published by the Chief Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation, External Broadcasting, PO Box &c, Bush House, London, WC2B 4PI (ie the BBC World Service)

Technical illustrated advice on choosing and setting up receivers to receive BBC radio over the whole world – how location affects reception, choosing the right waveband, choosing a suitable receiver, is your set in good order?, earthing your receiver, lightning protection, reception reports, interference (electrical, second channel), poor radio conditions, wavebands and frequencies (metres and megahertz).

Good condition

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(Photo background is cm sq)