Analog TV Transmission Facility Tour

[@Gameboygenius]

Bloody corporate won't let him install a flux capacitor.

[@HighestRank]

9:55

[@LasseHuhtala]

Any nutbag building hi-end speaker cable of those coax cables? The skin-effect must be immense, and you can totally hear the difference! :-)

[@ncrdisabled]

Let see now back in the 80 s I was a lot younger and on submarines SSBN 619 and 634 . We had radar sonar and a few top secret I am not allowed to tell . Just 1 example of 1 radar the wavelength run from the top of the sub to lower 3 decks down to the crews mess . 1 of my jobs I had to make sure it was not damaged it could not be inclosed as it would mess up the carrier wave .We also had a MK 19 gyro I took care of it had a box about 5 feet tall and it had over 200 tubes . The sub was built in 1961 when I was born . I had to retube it a few times on both subs . If we could not find the problem we had to retube it and man that was a job . The tubes come in a big box well wrapped and had the cert by written on them . As we took out the tubes we had to test them with a tube tester and any ones that even looked bad had to be wrapped up 3 times and put in a separate box for each one . If you found 1 bad you were not allowed to just put the old tubes back in a just replace it .It takes over a year just to be qualified on some things. Now I am just a disabled vet a another long story . I love old electronics and hate to see them scrapped . I am sure I could make use of them

[@captapraelium1591]

"Just" a disabled vet? Thank you for your service!

[@ncrdisabled]

Yep got nailed during a torpedo reload test while docked in Holy loch scotland . A stupid chain broke and the mk 48 torpedo swung and crushe me and my spine . I was on the SSBN 619 and was a e-5 . I ended up flown to Westchester hospital and spent 9 months there and it was in 1989 . Now I have a about 9 fusions in my back and still after 6 operations cannot walk but have a electric wheelchair and sit in a special chair but I can not drive at all . But at least I am alive .

[@captapraelium1591]

I'm sorry that happened mate... and I'm glad you're still with us. We civilians are lucky to have people like you.

[@douro20]

That solid-state VHF transmitter for Channel 10 has an x86 processor in it...it's a V53, a high-performance 8086-class processor with the same performance as an 80286.

[@tomgeorge3726]

Excellent video Dave, good content and technical info. Top camera work, nice and sharp when showing technical parts. Thank Dave for us Dave.. Tom..

Excellent tour !

[@Petertronic]

I love this video, one of my favourites, I have seen it a few times now

[@JetNmyFuture]

That guy is SHARP! Really fun to watch and learn - it's an environment that so few people ever see.

[@ModmanOfficial]

That one transmitter was running for 20 STRAIGHT YEARS, Rock solid tech right there!

[@douro20]

Is someone going to part these things out? I've heard that some old klystron transmitters have gone to done physics work...

[@frogz]

....it takes a special type of person to watch an hour of this.... there has been enough of those people to get nearly 5k views already!

[@HebaruSan]

The complexity is mindblowing. What I would have expected before watching this video: "This is the part where the signal from the studio comes in, and this is the antenna."

[@JONOVID]

the air filtration system must be good after 50 years in that building. not a single bit of dust or rust anywhere too be seen.

[@HighestRank]

Watter isntt goiing too condensse oon aa 5000,00W boxx.

[@Muonium1]

Very cute bear

[@Sam-w9des]

THIS IS HEAVEN FOLKS, LOL

[@HighestRank]

Mt.Olympus because nobody ever went while their gods were alive.

[@DonaldSleightholme]

couldn't they removed the oxygen from the cabinets then sealed them 🤔

[@HighestRank]

Too much air handler's 'comfort' noise. YT does not have a Dolby tape dehissing button.

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Hi Dave, maybe state somewhere it is a repost? in the intro he says December last year for the switch-off of channel 7...

[@rfengr00]

Here I thought Dave was going to haul off the entire transmitter. Great video.

[@frogz]

.....he did but they cant show you that on the video...for reasons...

[@keeleeng]

Looks like the New channel fiasco got sorted.. good stuff

[@17plus9]

Visit HAARP facility and make another such a video!

[@matthewpettengale9943]

I hope this is still all intact.

[@NicholasMarkovich]

where's the part where you walked into the open door and he went hang on no you can't be here filming

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

I would die for even one of those bigass caps!

[@qubei]

Can't wait for EEVBlog to start broadcasting on its own pirate TV station

[@sciencegirl100]

WOW! Talk about electronics porn

[@BeaversElectricDam]

Very nice video Dave! I approve! :-D

[@darrencafferty]

Great Film Mate, that NEC gear has to be the most beautifully engineered Electronics I've ever seen!

[@SuEnRoD]

So Sad to know it's all sold for scrap.

[@Michael_Livingstone]

Tour guide is a hottie!

[@alfagulf]

Wait! You forgot your camera. :)

[@muh1h1]

I'd love to walk you through one of our hubs so you can see how cable TV signal is produced nowadays, its some Really cool expensive tech! Unfortunatly you'd have to come to germany, and i'd have to have a discussion with my Boss :)

[@nuwanwijayalath6894]

I love this video Dave. It reminds me the one year i had my Training on analog TV Transmission facility. i'm familiar with all those equipment. Exciters IF modules, Modulators, cavity resonators, combiners, splitters, rigid lines, semi rigid cables, antennas and all tower stuff. thank you dave. I love this video

[@davidwilkie9551]

Engineering technophile lolly shop, German Bakery finess maybe? There's the ordinary everyday machinery of communication, like an Electronic voice-box in AM-FM Communication Engineering, and Digital logic "error correction" confining the meaning of probability in potential possibilities wave-packaging. All good standardized knowledge in all its complexity, ..which when you flip to the "simplicity" of "digitized" unitary e-Pi-i interference positioning resonance imaging function, the cause-effect emitter-receiver here-now-forever Actuality, "nobody knows" what they are saying, in Totality. Ie human brains are simultaneously limited and unlimited. This device is a demonstration of Pi by the Electronic mechanism of applied Polygon method, and one should keep in mind the Lyman and Balmer Series of Phase-resonance transitions that are the real "sum of all histories" contributions to phenomena of temperature and relative dimension position. Satisfying Technical achievement, thanks. (Definitely a lot of stuff for the backyard hoarder)

[@muh1h1]

As someone who workes at a cable distributer this is quite intresting :)

[@Sam-w9des]

AWESOME!!

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

That hardware score was unique in that most of the time the item has some possibility of being re-used but in the case of these transmitters they are hard locked unusable. Some really cool repurposement of that beautiful chassis might be in order. Electroporn indeed.

[@guatagel2454]

Hi Dave!

[@brunodherrera]

747300 hours, so, 85 years, no sense

[@davidkilpatrick1640]

The last digit (black on white background) counts in increments of 6 minutes. The counter has already done a full cycle, so adding 10000 to 74730 equals almost 20 years.

[@SIC66SIC66]

Why is the coax hollow and not a solid cable?

[@davidkilpatrick1640]

RF energy travels on the surface of copper (Google "skin effect"). Even if the center conductor was solid, only the very edge of it would carry any actual signal. Hollow is lighter and cheaper.

[@SIC66SIC66]

Ah, that makes sense, thank you :)

[@derbombenleger4678]

Es Lebt "EEVdiscover" 1"11 It lives 1!11

[@TheRailroad99]

So sad this was all trashed...

[@MrKillerpics]

Love this Vid!