06-07-2017, 02:17 AM
That’s an interesting bunch of articles.
Some sense as to how the BBC and the GPO worked together on programme distribution matters is provided in the final chapter, “The Line Interconnection System”, in the book “Sound and Television Broadcasting General Principles” by K.R. Sturley and published by Iliffe in 1961.
The changes wrought by the arrival of the GPO Tower and the microwave distribution system were covered in outline in Wireless World, including articles in 1964 December page 608ff and 1966 July page 336ff. (See: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Wire...gazine.htm.)
Nothing was said in either article about high quality audio distribution by microwave, but I imagine that TV sound at least would have had to pass through the complex switching centre. And some of the multitude of microwave telephone circuits might have been set up as music quality links.
Cheers,
Steve
Some sense as to how the BBC and the GPO worked together on programme distribution matters is provided in the final chapter, “The Line Interconnection System”, in the book “Sound and Television Broadcasting General Principles” by K.R. Sturley and published by Iliffe in 1961.
The changes wrought by the arrival of the GPO Tower and the microwave distribution system were covered in outline in Wireless World, including articles in 1964 December page 608ff and 1966 July page 336ff. (See: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Wire...gazine.htm.)
Nothing was said in either article about high quality audio distribution by microwave, but I imagine that TV sound at least would have had to pass through the complex switching centre. And some of the multitude of microwave telephone circuits might have been set up as music quality links.
Cheers,
Steve
