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~Edward R. Murrow
Front of RCA 1-kw broadcast transmitter with front panels removed.
Fundamentals of Radio by Frederick Emmons Terman. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1938.
Mr Philip Kelley, Director, Wireless Broadcast Standards, Alcatel-Lucent
Mr Paul Garnett, Director, Microsoft
ITU/A.Roska
Looking northwest on Pechin street in Manayunk at the Roxborough broadcasting tower farm. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007.
Mr Peter Siebert, Executive Director, DVB Project
Mr Philip Kelley, Director, Wireless Broadcast Standards, Alcatel-Lucent
ITU/A.Roska
BBC RADIO BABLETOWN (vintage photo, circa 1941): Monitors (listeners-in) studying the broadcasting schedule to see when they would 'go on the air' or when they had to listen to broadcasts from other countries on short and long waves.
Is on a wall in the innards of a massive room in the bbc broadcasting house which is made to look like a ship!
Studio 4B and News Editors Cubilcle, July 1932.
Copyright BBC
Read more about the construction of BBC Broadcasting House on the About the BBC blog.
“60th Anniversary” “Diamond Anniversary”
“Timeline of disaster”
“0745: Princess Victoria leaves Stranraer
0900: Wave bursts through stern doors
0946: First emergency signal sent: No tugs available
1032: SOS call: "Car deck flooded"
1100: Portpatrick lifeboat given wrong directions
1300: Starboard engine room flooded - position critical
1308: Ship lying on beam end
1315: "We are preparing to abandon ship"
1330: Steamer passes Victoria without seeing her
1340: Passengers ordered to deck
1358: Last message from ferry's radio operator”
“Princess Victoria sinking remembered 60 years on”
Sixty years ago, the MV Princess Victoria sank off the County Down coast in treacherous weather, with the loss of 133 lives.
Stop anyone on the street and ask them about Titanic, chances are they will know something about the maritime tragedy.
But despite the fact that no women or children survived the sinking of the Princess Victoria, you might get a more quizzical look.
Now the grief, heroism and the impact this tragic story had on communities in Northern Ireland and Scotland is retold in a BBC Radio Ulster documentary on Sunday.
Almost 60 years ago this sea disaster - one of the worst to happen in British coastal waters - dominated the headlines and devastated families and communities in Larne, Stranraer and further afield.
The omens were not good on the day the ferry sank - 31 January 1953.
Parts of western Europe and the UK were in the grip of freak weather from the north Atlantic.
Severe gales battered coastlines and floods hit many areas, killing hundreds of people. It was in these treacherous conditions that the Princess Victoria set sail from Stranraer.
Larne man, John McKnight, 92, is one of the few remaining survivors. He was chief cook on the ferry and remembers that day vividly.
"I started work at 5.30am and the train from London arrived (in Stranraer) at 6am. Everything had to be prepared for breakfast, we served that to the passengers before setting sail. The ferry proceeded up Loch Ryan and soon we discovered that there was a severe gale blowing," he recalled.
Fate sealed
At the helm of the Princess Victoria that day was 55-year-old Captain James Ferguson. An experienced seaman, he had worked on the Larne - Stranraer route for many years.
Captain Ferguson's troubles started when he steered the ferry out of Loch Ryan.
Jack Hunter, a retired school teacher from Stranraer, who has written about the tragedy, explained what happened next.
"Out of the shelter of the loch, Captain Ferguson discovered that the sea was much worse and perhaps with a change of direction, the ship was having more difficulty," he said.
"For one reason or another, the captain decided to try turn back and head for Stranraer. It was at this point that the ferry had a calamitous encounter with a large wave, which stove in the stern doors."
This brush with mother nature at her worst was, ultimately, to seal the fate of the Princess Victoria.
A memorial to those who lost their lives in the Princess Victoria tragedy stands in Stranraer
With the stern doors irreparably damaged, water flooding the car deck and inadequate drainage on board, Captain Ferguson decided the best course of action was to try and steer the ship towards Northern Ireland.
Passengers and crew
As disaster unfolded, the 127 passengers and 49 crew members found themselves locked in a terrible and increasingly impossible struggle for survival.
On board were people from all social classes.
Families with young children, servicemen, Short Brothers workers from the company's Scottish base and two politicians - the Northern Ireland deputy prime minister, Maynard Sinclair and Sir Walter Smiles, the north Down MP. Both men died when the ship went down.
At 09:46 GMT, the Princess Victoria sent its first request for help. David Broadfoot, the ship's radio officer, was not supposed to be working that day but had swapped shifts with another crew member.
Stephen Cameron, author of a book on the Princess Victoria tragedy, said David Broadfoot was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his heroic actions."He stayed in his cabin broadcasting continuously, at one stage he even apologised to radio stations (that were picking up his signals) for the poor quality of his Morse code. David's last message was sent as the ship went under," he said.
In those final traumatic hours, many other people showed fortitude and compassion in the face of certain death.
One of them was Castlerock woman, Nansy Bryson, who has been called the "heroine of the Princess Victoria".
She worked as a missionary in Kenya and was back home with her husband and three children, visiting relatives.
Nansy had travelled to Scotland for some meetings and was returning to Northern Ireland on the ferry. Her daughter, Margaret Njonjo, hasn't talked about the tragedy in public before and shared her pride in her mother.
"She was one of the bravest women on board who whispered words of comfort to other passengers and led them in singing a hymn. She also tried to help a three year old child into one of the lifeboats but failed to do so, going under (the water) herself in the process," Margaret said.
"My sisters and I are glad to know she found immense strength in her own faith, to the point of being able to help others."
Rescue attempt
When Captain Ferguson made the final call to abandon ship, eyewitnesses say he was at the bridge as the Princess Victoria went under. It happened just five miles off the Copeland Islands and within sight of the north Down coast.
Some passengers and crew were able to reach the ship's lifeboats although, tragically, one carrying women and children crashed against the side of the ferry, throwing everyone into the icy waters. All of them died.
The frantic search for survivors involved steamers, trawlers, a naval boat and the Donaghadee lifeboat, the Sir Samuel Kelly. Its crew eventually plucked 33 men to safety. Bravery medals were awarded to many for their valiant rescue efforts that day.
Only 44 men survived the sinking of the Princess Victoria - more than three times that number perished. For families, especially in Larne and Stranraer, the news that a loved one had died was too much to bear.
Captain Ferguson's son, Jim, who was 18 when the tragedy happened, remembers the show of support from his father's colleagues.
Jack Peoples was the youngest crew member to die
"A few of the sailors who survived, came to our house over the next few days to speak to my mother. She appreciated it very much, particularly in times of difficulty and stress for them," Jim remembered.
Emotion
"I still feel his loss, very much so, I loved my father."
When Betty Crawford thinks of her brother Jack Peoples, it is often with raw emotion. At 16, the Larne teenager was the youngest crew member to die.
"(On the day of the tragedy) my mum disappeared. I found her in the garden where she was praying to God to please bring back his body. And God answered her prayer because she got his body back," Betty said.
"Jack's was one of the first funerals to take place, I remember throngs of people there and men with tears running down their cheeks. There was a numbness about it all and disbelief."
Two months after the disaster, a court of inquiry was convened in Belfast. A verdict was reached that the Princess Victoria was not a seaworthy ship, because of the inadequate strength of the stern doors and a lack of drainage on its car deck.
On two previous occasions - in 1949 and 1951 - these same design faults had caused problems on the ferry. Jack Hunter believes if they had been fixed back then, things might have been very different.
"Most certainly, it is a disaster that could have, and should have been avoided. The problems were discovered, they were known to be there, one assumes they were reported through official channels, yet nothing was done about them," he said.
Whatever the causes of the Princess Victoria sinking to a watery grave on that stormy Saturday afternoon in January 1953, the passing of time has not erased the sorrow felt by many, whose loved ones went down with the ship.
They are commemorated every year at services in Larne, Stranraer and in Donaghadee - and on the forthcoming 60th anniversary, the overriding sentiment will remain the same.
“Never forget”
1953: 130 die in ferry disaster. The Princess Victoria, a British Railways car ferry, bound for Larne in Northern Ireland, had left Stranraer on the south-west coast of Scotland an hour before when the stern gates to the car deck were forced open in heavy seas.
Water flooded into the ship and as the cargo shifted, the ferry, one of the first of the roll on-roll off design, fell onto her side and within four hours she sank.
Among the passengers who perished were the Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major J M Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down.
The Princess Victoria went down off the coast near Donaghadee with a loss of 133 lives, only 44 men survived and no women or children. All the ship's officers including the Captain, James Ferguson, perished. It was the worst 20th century peacetime disaster in British waters.
The Donaghadee lifeboat (along with the Portpatrick and Cloughy lifeboats) went out into the raging seas of the great storm and under coxswain Hugh Nelson the crew of the Sir Samuel Kelly rescued 33 of the 44 survivors in seas with waves reported to be 50 to 60 feet high.
Today; the Sir Samuel Kelly sits in Donaghadee behind a builders fence.
Mr Peter Siebert, Executive Director, DVB Project
Mr Philip Kelley, Director, Wireless Broadcast Standards, Alcatel-Lucent
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Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. It is a Grade II* listed building and includes the BBC Radio Theatre, where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience
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Portra 400
Rollei Digibase C41 dev kit
An Afro-Colombian youth in Cauca, Colombia promotes peace through community radio programs in a region with rampant armed conflict violence.
Credit: ACDI / Katalina Morales
In chronological order...
Public Service Broadcasting, the Roundhouse, London, England.
7th May 2015
Diversas cintas magnetofónicas usadas para difusión radial de publicidad, inicio y final de la transmisión y noticias importadas, entre otros.
Normalmente se graban a 7 1/2 pps. estéreo o mono, en una sola dirección.
Solían usarse directamente, o se grababa su contenido en otra cinta más larga o en un cartucho de cinta sin fin, a modo de tanda (en especial, la publicidad.)
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Broadcasting Place Leeds voted best tall Building in Europe 2010
www.fcbstudios.com/projects.asp?s=27&ss=&proj=1326
Click here for a walkthrough of the interior: www.leedsmet.ac.uk/news/index_broadcasting_place_190509.htm
Aberdeen, Feb. 21-22. (Permission granted for journalism outlets and educational purposes. Not for commercial use. Must be credited.) Photo courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. ©2014 SDPB
1. I am thankful for getting better at respecting my own time. I had a cancelled appointment this morning but already had stuff in my queue with which to do! :) It also makes me limit time I spend on tasks which significantly increases my ability to focus. What tactics do you use to respect your own time? Enquiring minds want to know!! ;)
2. I am thankful for the time I spend by myself. Spending time by myself means not having to explain myself when I blurt out, “It’s a BOOLEAN!” while doing the supper dishes! :) What idiosyncrasies do you have when you are alone? :)
3. I am thankful for finishing, framing, photographing and wrapping a piece on Tuesday.
4. I am thankful for identifying that one thing that holds me back from Biggification and allowing people any opportunity to enjoy my art is that I feel anxious about getting too wrapped up in Biggification that I could/would get sick .. and umm I can’t even say it .. about my transplant. This allowed me to put health in the forefront of my personal manifesto which currently consists of three words ( / Gratitude / make art / health / ) in a circle with two-way arrows. Identifying the elephant in the room has been refreshing. :)
5. I am thankful for reminding myself why I write the thankful lists! To remind myself that I do have (and maybe am much) to be thankful for. Gratitude lists also distract me when I become too enthralled with my own belly button lint.
6. I am thankful that you can never step into the same river twice.
7. I am thankful for finding more excuses to walk and smile - often at the same time! ;)
8. I am really thankful for beautiful writing books with unassuming black covers and smooth unlined paper that I can write and draw on with lovely felt pens that are able to last much longer. Do you have a favourite place and/or way to write? :)
9. I am thankful for Lindsay recommending Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. It has some lovely kernels of wisdom that I identify with AND, like every really good book, it made me laugh, cry and think! :) What really great books have you read? What drew you to the book?
10. I am seriously thankful for the people that blog what they need to communicate (their art) accessibly and are finding sustainable ways to help other people make their own art. Without their help I don’t know that I would have re-started making my own art, continued practising making photos or written anything publicly. They demonstrate that you can make your art, whatever that is, you can find a way. It can take LOT of work but it can be done!! :)
11. I am thankful for people (OK! it was one person!) that sent me stuff like this art making video and this letter to The Kidbecause it made me feel better and inspired me. (They also made me cry dang it.) I am thankful for posting a link to an audio file that helped some people feel better. :) What were you able to do to help someone feel (even) better? Did someone do something that made you feel better (even) better? What was it, did you let the person(s) know?
Thank you for reading. If you don’t feel like leaving a comment to answer any or all of the questions feel free to send a telepathic message, I believe my receptor should be up and running again! ;)
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Light painted dishes on Rodel transmitter mast
The lowest two dishes came out really heavily saturated, purely as a result of hitting them with the LED for too long i.e. no Photoshop effects.
Same mast you can see in the background of my previous pic, Rodel Radar.
2 minutes. Full moon. Natural, red, yellow and purple LED.
Part of my Night Photography set
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Broadcasting tower is a new high-rise student accommodation building in Leeds city centre. One of its most interesting features is the COR-TEN cladding, which, upon exposure to weather, develops a rust-like layer, protecting it from any more corrosion.
Most of the people I know are not very fond of how the tower looks, but it's hard to deny that its interesting facade and unusual angular shapes make it a very suitable object for photography :)
Had to get REALLY low for this shot, see the previous photo in the photostream ;)