Title :
The BBC Monitoring Service - A short engineering history
Author_Institution :
Defence Acad. of the United Kingdom, Cranfield Univ., Swindon, UK
Abstract :
At the end of World War II, the BBC had one of the most comprehensive radio monitoring centers in the world. The key to this success was the rapid and outstanding development of the engineering facilities for monitoring signals - this included an antenna farm and specially designed amplifiers, receivers, recorders and transcribers.
Keywords :
antennas; history; radio receivers; radiofrequency amplifiers; recorders; wideband amplifiers; BBC monitoring service; World War II; antenna engineering; antenna farm; broadband amplifier; comprehensive radio monitoring center; engineering facility; engineering history; receiver; recorder; signal monitoring; transcriber; Monitoring; Power cables; Antenna Engineering; Broadband Amplifiers; Broadcasting; History; Listening; Monitoring; Receivers; Recorders; Signal Reception;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Conference (HISTELCON), 2010 Second IEEE Region 8 Conference on the History of
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7450-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7451-6
DOI :
10.1109/HISTELCON.2010.5735286
