Tour of an Analog TV Transmission Facility

[bandersen]

David Kilpatrick from TXAustralia takes us on a detailed tour of the old decommissioned 10kW analog TV transmission system at the Artarmon facility in Sydney. How it all works from the broadcaster video input to final transmission output up the 180m broadcast antenna. Plus some teardowns of the old equipment that's been used to transmit the Channel 7 TV signal in Sydney since 1981.

Copper rigid coaxial lines, waveguides, filters, splitters, combiners, converters, transmission valve, power supplies and all the equipment necessary to transmit a 10kW analog TV signal in a major city like Sydney.

http://youtu.be/mR_wJkxKSXU

[old_tv_nut]

Very interesting. Reminds me of my one-time visit to Channel 2 analog in Chicago - the plumbing there for sideband filter, etc. had some parts that were more like 20 inches in diameter.