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Uploaded by on May 21, 2008

This is a digital re-creation of part of a typical ITA Mendlesham Trade Test transmission in the 1960s using Testcard D and also the start of programmes transmission of the ITA picaso tuning signal start-up sequence. This transmission would have been radiated from the ITA - Anglia Television's Mendlesham, Suffolk, East of England, VHF 405 line transmitter, which had a peak white power of 200 KiloWatts ERP, and was horizontally polarised on Channel B 11. This transmitter also had two high powered relays at Sandy Heath, in Bedfordshire at 30 Kilowatts ERP, Channel B 6 and Belmont, in South Lincolnshire at 30 KiloWatts ERP, Channel B 7.

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  • What were the point of these ITA testcards?

  • Radio Searock, many thanks indeed. The Vaughan Williams 'Sea Songs' ending this clip actually ran into announcer Dick Graham impeccably enunciating, as I recall: "This is Anglia Television, broadcasting on channels 6, 7 and 11 from the Belmont, Sandy Heath and Mendlesham transmitters of the Independent Television Authority". Wasn't the Sandy Heath reference added later in an updated version? I still have the voiceover on MP3, I think, should you wish to 'gild the lily'!

  • 2nd item is 'Carriage and Pair' by Benjamin Fankel

  • music is 'Skippy' by Bruce Campbell

  • What is that song on the first part of ident ? My friend and i used i part of it in a commercial demo 20 years ago.

  • super stuff

  • "Broadcasting on channels 6, 7 and 11 of the Independent Television Authority". Programmes used to start about 4PM in the afternoon, and finish about 1145PM. Used to watch "Twizzle", "Torchy the battery boy", Fireball XL5, and so many others too numerous to name. We had a Murphy Astra TV, which was all rigged up for 625 lines when that started up, and it was the size of a small detached house, and had it's own quarter of an acre in the living room. LOL Those halcyon days, sadly, are long gone.

  • Oh God this reminds me of when I was a kid Happy Daze

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