ftlight wrote: > When I worked at BBC Bush House we originated World Service and six > foreign language networks, all of them 24/7. One of the least desirable > jobs was the Multi Control Position, which was an audio monitoring > station that automatically switched from one outgoing feed to the next > every ten seconds. The operator was tasked with raising the alarm if any > of them went silent. Here's a photo (not of me): > http://www.bakerlite.co.uk/pics/Bush%20House/emx-01.jpg
I hope I'll be forgiven for this mild topic digression, but I've always wanted to mention this to *someone* from Bush House. I had two shortwave receivers at my disposal when I was a teenager in the 1980s; one was mine, a birthday gift, and the other was a large older wooden cabinet table radio that was actually my family's all-band receiver. One evening I decided to tune each one to a different WS frequency, and as the current program was ending, I was flabbergasted with what I heard. The program faded on one radio and the continuity announcer came on, but it continued on the other radio for a bit until it also faded on that frequency. The same continuity announcer then came on on the second radio in sync with the first. I had always presumed that the programming was uniform across all frequencies, but I learned that evening that this was not the case! Each frequency apparently had its own engineer making transmission decisions, and the continuity announcer was evidently given cues as to when to stop speaking to permit the fading-out of a programme on one frequency while still talking on another. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shoshani's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64193 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103311 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
