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@ 2:16 - that me AM14/45 500W amplifier!

Closer to bromsgrove. ?

Hi great video real radio engineering , I hope it carry on broadcasting . Regards mark

Re the h/f whine, I suspect that the veritable density sound track they were using could not handle it so the proberbly ran the original recording a half speed.

Interesting that it was 7 years from becoming redundant to demolition. Even allowing for some time spent trying to find a use for it (as described), I fear these days there would be far more pressure to shorten the interval. There's strong desire to remove links to the engineering past (and other elements of the past) - I think they make some people uneasy. More than just the maintenance costs.

Fascinating that (8:43) the lightbulbs survived; I appreciate they probably used rough-duty bulbs, but still … And brilliant choice of music.

I'd like if this footage was upscaled and colourised.

Absolutely fascinating, thank you for uploading this ❤

Thanks for this!

Why does the sound keep cutting out?

Hadn't quite realised the scale of things at Droitwich! Good to see this video 👍

It's crazy to think that the BBC could demolish the site after 90 odd years, especially considering the blood and sweat of the many workers who constructed the buildings, mast and all the RF equipment, these should be preserved as natural treasures especially considering the countless millions that would have tuned in, not to mention the taxpayers' money that has gone into it.

A few years ago I had to deliver some equipment by road from Luton to Madrid and I had BBC Radio 4 all the way! On one day in the journey, a Saturday afternoon I think, there was a very good radio play about a man coming back as a ghost to annoy his widow and I became so engrossed in it that suddenly I found myself in a town in France that was not on my route! That would not happen with MW, or VHF(FM)...

I wonder if its still the same radio mast from 90 years ago ?

Visited the site some years ago and the cooling ponds were well stocked with goldfish! Knew staff who worked there back in 1960-1980.

Among others I remember Droitwich written on the frequency scales of older radio sets.

No hard hats, no high vis clothing, no safety equipment, before the days of health and safety

15 years later I would love to see an HD transfer of this film. Where did it come from?

oh how the times were before dshs

No bloody M5 carving through the countryside!!

Love the BBC Colour banner, what a great revolution was starting.

BBC TV from Holme Moss on Channel 2 could be received easily as far south as Birmingham, to this day, radio from Holme Moss can be received far and wide.

Fascinating story, it would be fantastic to see the original 2LO transmitter working again, although I suspect it's far too brittle for that duty nowadays.

I think these men would have been amazed to know Droitwich was still on air 90 years later!

Looked a fascinating place.

Great to see the Mk III Desk ♥️ @ 2:12 - the hours I spent behind a Mk3, and what I wouldn't do to have one at home, or even just the chance to do a show behind one just once more. 😀

... future was looking exciting until 1997! I did 13-years as staff followed by 12-years in privatised department. Very proud of all those years. Some familiar faces in those clips. Happy days.

Nice sound.

Unfortunately I never got to Warwick - but presumably a lot of these people used to be in Grafton House? Who went to Brookmans Park - was that purely TPCD?

Witnessed this. Back in 1985, I was a trainee Engineer attending a course that happened to coincide with events shown. A long time ago 😃

🤳 how time's have changed

Just thought your viewers should know Reginald Fessenden was Canadian born and a Canadian Citizen working in the United States. Fessenden played live music, his Violin, over the air and spoke. One could say he was the first broadcaster.

Just finished the book Radio Girls which makes mention of the 2L0 transmitter. Excellent book!

I visited it today on the way to the barn coffee shop.

Thanks for this upload

How sad. BBC's actual engineering department posted this video in a resolution that would have embarrassed a child. EVEN in 2007. So very very sad.

Was that Peter Bird at 2,31?

... excellent archive content ...

Loved it

Ah, the trusty RATS units (7:17)... "someone reset the RATS, it's going off again"

I can see these beauties from Bromyard Downs, Herefordshire (26 miles away) on a clear day. Lovely engineering.

Poor old thing.

Only a few miles from where I live. I’ve always wanted to have a look in that building but I guess most of this old equipment is long gone.

Myself and Emyr Owen Jones were the two that got inside the Dalek for the day, shown at the end of this clip is Emyr jumping in with me and another chap putting the lid back on, we were 15.

So very sad looking at this now. Ironic that we have such small reliable SW Radio's now and very few SW Broadcasters. I believe abandoning SW transmission was shortsighted. I'd love to see RCI return to SW with new Nautel transmitters. Anyone who has studied international politics knows SW transmission equals soft power projection to the parts of the world and peoples who will never have a dependable internet connection.

Amazing achievement. How times have changed. This, designed and built by us in Britain and not tendered out to foreign countries. The Conservative party were in power. Can't imagine May and Co. keeping the jobs here, today!

I never knew that Radio 3 had ever been on MF. I had thought it was VHF FM only from its beginning.

Shame about loss of sound after 15:49.

I used to work there 1975 - 1977.