A special event to take place on September 10.

[Geordie McBoyne]

The 405 line television service was opened on the 2nd November 1936. It was the first high definition television service to transmit regular programmes that were listed in advance in the Radio Times. To mark this occasion the BRWTVM at Dulwich will be holding a TV extraviganza day on September the 10th to celebrate the 80th anniversary of television.

The day will be an interesting one with attractions to keep us all interested and involved.

Vintage television display including some interesting Murphy examples from Mike Barker's collection.

Vintage TV footage

Restoration advice and tips

Your problems solved

Bring your own TV receiver to demonstate on the mueum's new405/625 RF installation system

There will also be a restoration competition. Don't be put off by this. Judging will be carried out more on the technical result than the polish on the chassis!

Bring and buy

Sale of TV and radio items duplicated at the museum

Museum tours

Food and drink will be available and entry will cost just ten pounds, less than the price of a couple of EF50s!

John Wakely and Peter Sanders, joint curators of the television dept BVWTVM

[ppppenguin]

If you're bringing a set and want to connect it to the Museum's TV distribution system a few tips.

1: If your set can't receive on Ch1, Ch9 or Ch32 please bring your own arrangements for generating suitable signals.
2: Please bring a cable with an F connector on one end and whatever your set needs on the other. Preferably a few metres long. While we will have a few cables around we may run out if there are a lot of sets to connect.
3: Mains extension leads may also be useful as we may run out of them

[hamid_1]

Sounds like good fun ... and it's on a Saturday so there's a good chance I'll be able to attend  

I recall a similar event at the museum in 2012, to commemorate the end of analogue TV broadcasting in London. People were invited to bring along a vintage 625 UHF TV to put on show. Back then, aerial cables were not necessary - the signal from Crystal Palace was so strong that the televisions could display a picture without an aerial connected. Happy days!

[Terry]

Bring your own TV receiver to demonstate on the mueum's new405/625 RF installation system

If it is of interest, you can see the schematic of the new system here. The bits in red are modifications that are a 'work in progress'.

Please bring a cable with an F connector on one end and whatever your set needs on the other. Preferably a few metres long. While we will have a few cables around we may run out if there are a lot of sets to connect.

Jeffrey, there are plenty of  spare RF outlets in the Display are but not much space.

There is also plenty of capacity in the Front Room but not in the Bedroom but that could be used if one 8-way splitter is temporarily connected to the terminated spare port on the two-way splitter via a 10dB pad (or a 4-way splitter and 10 or 12dB pad).

If some folk can bring along 4-way mains blocks with reasonably long input cables, they might be needed if there is high demand!