[A-DX] Fw: BBC Tatsfield Measurement and Receiving Station 1961 pamphlet

["Wolfgang Bueschel" <BueschelW@xxxxxx>]

Die erarbeiteten Tatsfield Frequenztabellen der mehr oder weniger 
verschleierten und Geheimstationen weltweit gab es dann anfangs der 70ziger 
Jahre als Weihnachtsschmankerl von BBC London Deutsch DX Programm Ingenieur 
Bernard Bale.
wb


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Barraclough" >
To: "Wolfgang Bueschel"  >
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 1:37 PM
Subject: BBC Tatsfield Measurement and Receiving Station 1961 pamphlet

Update on the bbceng.info site:

The Receivers link in the menu above has pointed to a blank page since
this web site started.  I am delighted to report that, thanks to Vaino
Lehtoranta, it now records an important part of BBC engineering
history. The word Tatsfield used to strike fear into the minds of many
BBC Technical Assistants like me, as one of the functions of this
Receiving Station was to check that operators had set up BBC HF
transmitters correctly. In reality Tatsfield carried out a valuable
function which contributed to the BBC's reputation for high quality
services.

Martin Ellen

Photographs and a pdf of a 17 page booklet produced by the BBC
Engineering Information department in March 1961 at:

http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/Receivers/receivers_Top.htm

The site is now derelict, 2008 visit reports and photos:
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=6231
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=6808

> > From the preview of History of International Broadcasting Volume 1 by
James Wood at Google books:

On 18 July 1948 Woofferton came back on the air with all six
transmitters again working at full power.....VOA programmes from its
studios in Washington were relayed across the Atlantic by shortwave,
picked up at the BBC Tatsfield receiving station and then relayed over
Post Office land lines to Woofferton.

All of the chapter on the Woofferton shortwave station is available on
Google Books preview, pages 96-104:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9HXY4stojmYC&pg=PA101&dq=woofferton&ei=j54bS6WeNZXGywS2tuG-Aw 

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