Introduction
Engineering Training Department (ETD) trained all of the
BBC's engineers and technical operators. Residential courses covered
the theory and practice of studio, communications and transmitter
engineering. The high standard of training helped to develop BBC
Engineering's good reputation.
Training course photographs, videos, information and exams:
This
link leads to a large number of training course
photographs, information and exams (Link also in menu
above)
Round Midnight - From Microphone to
Aerial by ETD 1982 (link to external site)
Information Sheets:
This link leads to a large
number of Information Sheets (Link also in menu above)
Training books and manuals:
BBC Engineering Training Manual 1942
Sound And Television Broadcasting - General Principles 1961
Motion Picture & TV Film - Image Control & Processing Techniques
Colorimitry And The Basic Colour TV System
Colour TV Systems - Supplemenary information
D.C. Transients
Modulation
Television Fundamentals
Television Principles Vol. 1 - TV Fundamentals (Practicals)
Television Principles Vol. 3 - TV Signal Coding
Television Principles Vol. 3 - TV Signal Coding (Practicals)
Television Signal Coding
Television Signal Coding (Practicals)
TV Signal Coding - Supplemenary information
Broadcasting Aspects of Radio Wave
Propagation and Transmitter Network Planning at Frequencies above 30MHz.
Training Supplements:
No. 1 -
Some Transmitter Problems.pdf
No. 2 - Fundamentals Of Television & Glossary Of Terms.pdf
No. 3 - Harmonic Distortion And Negative Feedback In Audio-Frequency
Amplifiers (2nd Issue).pdf
No. 3 - Harmonic Distortion And Negative Feedback In Modern Amplifiers (1st
Issue).pdf
No. 4 - Some Fundamental Problems In Radio Engineering.pdf
No. 5 - An Introduction To Slot Aerials.pdf (1950)
No. 5 - An introduction to Wideband Aerials (1963)
No. 6 - Programme
Meters.pdf
No. 7 - Basic Principles Of Television Lighting.pdf
No. 8 - Microwave
Valves.pdf
No. 9 - Frequency
Modulation.pdf
No. 10 - Long-Wave And Medium-Wave Propogation.pdf
No. 11 - Lighting For Television Outside Broadcasts.pdf
No. 12 - Transistors.pdf
No. 13 - Monitoring and Relaying of Short-wave Broadcast Signals.pdf
New in March 2023
No. 14 - Colorimetry.pdf
Other training material
BBC
Safety Regulations 8th ed. 1970.pdf
Digital Audio - Audio Operations training booklet 1990
Microprocessors - A Self Paced Package 1988
The Operation and Maintenance of Klystrons in U.H.F. Television Transmitters
(T.C.P.D. document) 1978
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