Redifusion / Telefusion Cable Radio

In message , at 03:12:37 on Mon, 6 Mar

Maybe it's a regional thing, but in the Nottingham area the Redifusion cables were strung mainly from chimneys and corners of buildings, zigzagging along; and far too frequently one of the spans would be across the road.

Like this:

In message , at

If you rotate the view 180 degrees, you can see a telegraph pole and the different type of wires radiating from that.

Unrelated to the cable but are the two poles a few yards behind and opposite each other genuine survivors from the trolleybus network , reinstated ones or replicas just but up to hold a banner for the Christmas lights etc?

G.Harman

Brian Gaff was thinking very hard :

A TV my parents bought, had an octal socket on the back. That was to enable a wired remote control to be plugged in - an optional extra. I vaguely remember messing about with that socket, and making a remote control for it. It used solenoids for the channel turret tuner up/down action.

In message , at 09:56:59 on Mon, 6 Mar 2017, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk remarked:

Christmas lights. The trams never went that far south, only as far as Trent Bridge cricket ground. Ditto the trolleybuses which replaced them.

The "new" tram (NET) was originally planned to go through West Bridford centre, along Davies Road to presumably a P&R near the bypass. Local residents successfully opposed it on the grounds of noise etc.

So there's still just the bus to the centre, but around one every two or three minutes. From Trent Bridge to the centre, last time I counted it was in excess of one per minute.

I think some people in the west of Scotland could get Ulster TV via cable, which I recall could be useful for football (not UTV's local matches before someone comments). .

I totally agree with your point Brian. I often used to ponder about if I could Time Travel, what technology would I take back 100years to shorten the development time. Most stuff nowadays would be pointless as one cannot understand its purpose of method of operation. When cars went to fuel injection I gave up on thinking that a car would be a useful exhibit for my time travelling jaunt.

In message , at 10:37:04 on Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Harry Bloomfield remarked:

I designed a home-brew remote control in around 1975, which used ultrasonic transducers to transfer the data. Ended up as a Practical Electronics cover project :)

Roland Perry laid this down on his screen :

I can vaguely remember that :-)

Those were the days..

That was a whole other system. There were also motorised tuners as well. Indeed hotels and cruise ships fitted out by oour lot also had ugly coinboxes on the side of the telly! Brian

In article , damduck- snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk scribeth thus

We had them here in Cambridge British relay they were called back then you can see a remaining multicore in the Google map link below.

Back in the early Sixties reception of the main 405 line services wasn't that good here, BBC came from Crystal palace a very long way away in south London then in later times ITV started in London and they were first to supply a decent ITV signal as it was rather difficult to receive that channel 9 service here from that distance until Anglia TV started up in 1959.

However the relay proved popular well into the early 70's as ITV London had a much better program output than what Anglia did.

In later times they were still on the go as the first BBC 2 service was again from London and very difficult to receive here till Sandy heath came on stream then once the 625 line TV on UHF started in earnest then they shut it down.

We use to have to convert TV's to work on the Relay box awful arrangement it was, and the picture quality deteriorated across the other side of the town from the mast which until recently was still standing and its pictured below all 150 feet of it on the left. It was in latter times used by a firm called Harry Collins and co for two way radio its now been demolished and harry collins's building has now been turned into a Mosque!..

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in the early 60s my to be in-laws' next door neighbour in Gt Eversden had a big aerial for Croydon. Mind you, he worked for a well known electronics company in Cambridge.

Presumably these old remnants of cables from defunct companies no longer have an owner, so I wonder what would happen if for example a cable across a street detached and got caught on a passing vehicle which could have consequences ranging from just a loud noise to pulling down a dilapidated chimney stack onto some pedestrians. With the cable company gone would any compensation claim fall onto the owners of the buildings it was attached to for ignoring a possble hazard. I happened to be reading a newspaper in North Devon a few years back and recall a report of a Bideford Council meeting where they were discussing the deteriorating state of the defunct British Relay system and whether the council should take on the task of getting it removed, I don't know what was agreed in the end.

G.Harman

I had excellent reception of Hannington in this part of S London, by using a second aerial. Only reason I wanted it was different films on ITV late night.

In article , charles scribeth thus

Yes we used to put them up, usually a 5 by 5 Yagi stack but the old Jaybeam skeleton slot worked very well indeed seemed to beat the rest hands down!.

Another Pyeman no doubt!.

En el artículo , damduck- snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk escribió:

Funnily enough, I passed under one on a bus the other day. Pretty sure the cable only just cleared the top of the bus. One end is fixed to a chimney stack.

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if you zoom in on the cable, you can see the distinctive spiral wrap of the guy wire. That's ex-Rediffusion.