{"id":24033,"date":"2017-02-07T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24033"},"modified":"2017-02-07T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:46:16","slug":"dave-once-forced-the-shipping-forecast-to-repeat-a-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/dave-once-forced-the-shipping-forecast-to-repeat-a-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave once forced the Shipping Forecast to repeat a broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Droitwich transmitting station (Source: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Our post yesterday regarding the Shipping Forecast<\/a> reminded me of a\u00a0story\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter (G4OYX)<\/a> once shared. Dave writes:<\/p>\n

I worked at the Droitwich Transmitting Station through 1972-1974, the home of the BBC UK Long Wave 1500 m\/200 kHz service as it was then.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1973 I was junior member of the engineering team, a 21 year-old Technical Assistant, and manned the control room for the four services from the site, Radio One, 1214 kHz, Radio Two, 200 kHz and Radio Four, 1052 kHz.<\/p>\n

It was customary to check the two 200 kW transmitters, T7A and T7B for power balance prior to the Shipping Forecast and I duly went out in the transmitter hall just before the start at 1355.<\/p>\n

I noted one was a little down and the other a little high so I pressed what I thought was the raise \/ lower buttons on the control desk. Unfortunately I had pressed the main on\/off buttons instead.<\/p>\n

The pair of transmitters came instantly off the air. I could hear on the audio monitoring the announcer starting the broadcast\u2026 it takes a while to reinstate the mercury arc rectifiers as the regulators had to run all the way down to zero and then back up to 14 kV.<\/p>\n

By the time I had got it back on the air he was just finishing so we had to contact London and arrange a repeat after the 1400 news bulletin\u2026 Ooops!<\/p>\n

I was much more careful after that when adjusting the transmitters.<\/p>\n

The Senior Maintenance Engineer was not best pleased, as he had to write up the shutdown report for London citing \u201cOperational Error\u201d as the cause.<\/p>\n

Happy Days\u2026<\/p>\n

Dave G4OYX.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a brilliant story, Dave! Thank you so much for sharing. Oh…I’m sure it’s a lot easier to laugh about it now than it was when it happened! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our post yesterday regarding the Shipping Forecast reminded me of a\u00a0story\u00a0SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter (G4OYX) once shared. Dave writes: I worked at the Droitwich Transmitting Station through 1972-1974, the home of the BBC UK Long Wave 1500 m\/200 kHz service as it was then. 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