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82 years of TV – Now in Colour! An update
Well, it is 80+ years since the first official TV broadcasts were made from Alexandra Palace. Logie Baird and EMI battled it out during an …
Hedley Jones….. Know about him?
As you know, I like writing about engineers and personalities that, in my opinion never received the recognition that they deserved. This chap did, sort …
Bill Tutte – Bletchley park
Thos e of you who read my articles regularly, will appreciate that I have a passion for vintage electronics, engineers who have stamped their mark …
A brief history of time, Car radios!
Now, the radio and car were invented around about the same time, Marconi did the radio and another chap did the car. One day, in …
Let’s have black & white 405 line television back!
In the 30s John Logie Baird was playing with his version of television. This was an electro-mechanical system and consisted of a metal disc with …
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Bring back 78 rpm records???
A listeners’ request during my Valle radio 50s-60s wanting to hear a tune only available on a 78 rpm record, got to thinking about how …
All our eggs in a Chinese basket!
We all love our electronic techie toys, be they, phones, PCs, labour saving gadgets, TVs and so on. Especially now that these sorts of commodities …
At the 3rd stroke, it will be…. The Speaking Clock
Some time ago, I wrote about a chap called Mr. Strowger, inventor of the automatic telephone exchange. He set the way to enable us to …
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HF radio Communication – Anyone out there??
So, HF radio (High Frequency), what’s that all about? Well, we all have heard about amateur radio and Morse code etc. HF radio, was and …
Wonderful world of guitar amplifiers
The nicer side of my working life is repairing vintage guitar amplifiers, for two reasons I guess. One, I like repairing equipment for people that …
The NHS RansomWare virus
The NHS RansomWare virus Well, what the hell was that all about? We recently saw how the NHS and many other companies and computer users …