Webweaver
Responsibility for this website
transfers to the Broadcast Engineering
Conservation Group in 2025.
Prior to this it was established and run by Martin Ellen.
I enjoyed running the website and its predecessors from 2003 to 2025, but I was keen to ensure that it has a secure future, irrespective of my ability or desire to carry on. So, I decided that a managed transfer to a suitable organisation would be the best way forward. The trustees of the Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group kindly agreed to take responsibility for the website and I regard this as the ideal organisation to do so. I joined the BBC in 1966 and spent 30 years working in aspects of engineering such as operations, equipment design, communications and senior management. I was heavily involved with the Transmission privatisation process and moved to Crown Castle, subsequently becoming Director of Technical Development prior to leaving in 2002. I thoroughly enjoyed much of my time in the BBC (and Crown Castle) and feel proud to have worked with very likable people who achieved a great deal. My credentials for building the web site are that I worked in several of the main departments of Engineering Division. I started at the bottom, aimed to be Director of Engineering - and didn't make it - surprise surprise! But I didn't do too badly. There are many good web sites that relate to broadcasting and to the BBC, but nobody else seemed to have set up a web site covering a broad range of BBC engineering activities. So, encouraged by support from ex-colleagues, I decided to build BBCeng. I am very grateful for the support that I have had. It has been
most enjoyable to have contact with like-minded people. I look
forward to keeping in touch. |
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