Training
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.
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The staff of BBC Engineering Training in front of Wood Norton Hall, near Evesham, Worcestershire. Training took place in the Hall and in several buildings around the estate. Click
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The history of Wood Norton Hall by Benjamin G. Cox 1975. Wood Norton during the Second World War. (Click Back to return) Aerial pictures of site in the 1960s: ETD Annual Report 1976. Guides to the Engineering Training Centre: 1981, 1986 and 1995. BBC Wood Norton Training Brochure 1994.
Fifty Years of BBC Engineering and Operational Training 1996 by
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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
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 (Practicals)
TV Signal Coding - Supplemenary information
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. 7 - Basic Principles Of Television Lighting.pdf
No. 9 - Frequency Modulation.pdf
No. 10 - Long-Wave And Medium-Wave Propogation.pdf
No. 11 - Lighting For Television Outside Broadcasts.pdf
No. 13 - Monitoring and Relaying of Short-wave Broadcast Signals.pdf New in March 2023
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