IBA Engineering Announcement 1985 - 405 line switchoff

[Analoguesat]

Fabulous stuff. This is from early January 1985, and includes info about the Durris tv mast failure in winter storms in 1984. But the 405 closedown stuff is just brilliant.

In remember looking out for the IBA Engineering Announcements - in the days before the internet it was a useful source of info about new transmitters

[video=youtube;Yvbio5PL5oU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvbio5PL5oU[/video]

 

[Topper]

The lady Janet Smythe says it is 1985 AS not 1995

 

[Analoguesat]

Oh eck. Yes of course you are right mate. I'll edit the year in the first post

 

[Hughes]

Great stuff, and very evocative. I remember seeing ITV for the first time, around 1962 when my parents bought their second TV. We lived in Boston, Lincs, and got BBC North on channel 2 Holme Moss, and Anglia on channel 11 from Mendlesham.

 

[Analoguesat]

Apparently when the 405 station at Kirk o Shotts was turned off the BBC only had one complaint - an old lady who lived near Inverness

 

[2cvbloke]

High Definition TV began in the 60's, as the continuity announcer explains briefly in this End of 405 Line BBC transmission:

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And the video recorded from the source camera that they used to watch the old TV:

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[Piltdownpaul]

I used to enjoy getting dx band 1 tv stations around europe,never got anything on though.