12-09-2019, 03:27 PM
STC New Southgate, N. London was where the STC Starphone (later ITT Starphone) came from.
The Starphone was a hand held one-piece UHF Radiotelephone. We used them at the Stock Exchange when I worked on the Cable TV system there. Using a vehicle in the City was out of the question, so all the various offices were visited on foot.
They proved very useful. We could be alerted to major outages and also of new jobs in the areas we were already working in - that saved a lot of walking!
We then bought a Starphone with reversed transmit and receive frequencies which was very useful if two of us were working on a signal fault in a large building because we could communicate directly with each other.
A team from New Southgate installed a leaky feeder in the ceiling of the market floor and checked out the coverage. This enabled a new tool to be offered to members. Authority was obtained to use out of band frequencies - it being a strict condition of the licence that the signals did not radiate outside of the Stock Exchange buildings - and members could then, for the first time, directly communicate with their staff on the Market Floor.
The Starphone was a hand held one-piece UHF Radiotelephone. We used them at the Stock Exchange when I worked on the Cable TV system there. Using a vehicle in the City was out of the question, so all the various offices were visited on foot.
They proved very useful. We could be alerted to major outages and also of new jobs in the areas we were already working in - that saved a lot of walking!
We then bought a Starphone with reversed transmit and receive frequencies which was very useful if two of us were working on a signal fault in a large building because we could communicate directly with each other.
A team from New Southgate installed a leaky feeder in the ceiling of the market floor and checked out the coverage. This enabled a new tool to be offered to members. Authority was obtained to use out of band frequencies - it being a strict condition of the licence that the signals did not radiate outside of the Stock Exchange buildings - and members could then, for the first time, directly communicate with their staff on the Market Floor.
