Broadcast Engineering Museum - Open days 2025

[ppppenguin]

The Broadcast Engineering Museum will be open on the following days in 2025:

First Sunday of April to August and October to November

Weekend 20/21 September as part of Heritage Open Days.

Opening times will be 11am to 4pm.

Finding us:

Broadcast Engineering Museum
41 Capper Avenue,
Gainsborough
DN21 5XS.

https://becg.org.uk/finding-us/

Free parking in our forecourt.

[ppppenguin]

It's now just a week until the first 2025 open day at the Broadcast Engineering Museum. https://becg.org.uk/events/

One new exhibit will be Mr Snoddy's TV repair workshop. This is based around a genuine Radio Rentals TV repair bench. As well as being a museum exhibit we intend to use it for maintaining the museum's many TVs and monitors.

Sunday 6th April 11am to 4pm

Finding us:

Broadcast Engineering Museum
41 Capper Avenue,
Gainsborough
DN21 5XS.

https://becg.org.uk/finding-us/

Free parking in our forecourt.

[ppppenguin]

TVB Europe, an online magazine that reaches a lot of broadcast professionals, has published an article about the Broadcast Engineering Museum.
https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/tvbeu...-available

It's on page 50, just before the end.

[Panrock]

It's not immediately clear how to gain access to this. The site seems to want to "sign me up" and for a while there was also a deceptive extra 'download' banner. Probably me being thick...

Steve

[Mike Watterson]

The download icon on the Flipbook version offers me the PDF of the issue.

Desktop Vivaldi Browser with default blocking.

EDIT:

I downloaded it and indeed pg 50 is "Trucks, valves and videotape" with a wee photo of Jeffrey. I'll read it later.

[ppppenguin]

I'll admit that Ruth wrote most of it for me. Being married to a professional writer and editor can make me lazy about these things.

I can download it with no problems. Firefox with Ghostery on Linux Mint here.

[ppppenguin]

Our May open day is on Sunday 4th.I've attached a couple of photos from our April open day. One is of our production gallery with the keyboard for an Aston character generator at the centre. This area is now approaching completion. The other is of Carol, a friend of the BECG, operating a wonderful and ancient set of lighting dimmers. They look like something out of a science fiction movie. Prepare for take-off! (Carol actually has a pilot's licence).

Come if you can - there's lots to see and do.

[ppppenguin]

Our next open day is on Sunday 1st June. 10am to 4pm. We look forward to seeing you.

The photo is of our RCA TR-70B quadruplex video recorder. This is in working order (sod won't like me saying that) and we demonstrate it on open days.

[ppppenguin]

We've got two more open days at the Broadcast Engineering Museum (6 July and 3 August) before our big event for 2025. We'll be open free of charge on the weekend of 20/21 September for Heritage Open Days. Their website has just gone live. Here's our entry: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/subm...-2025.html

At yesterday's open day one of our visitors had a special interest in an aspect of broadcasting. I said we've got some things in our archive that you might like to see. I took him upstairs and dug out the relevant boxes. We found this photo. It's well annotated on the back so we know a lot about it but I think it deserves a caption 

Have fun!

There are no prizes for the best suggestion

[peter scott]

"I think I can see the problem."