Posted by Mike Terry on August 04, 2024 at 11:56:23.

In Reply to: 'Droitwich Calling' Exhibition - in the UK posted by Mike Terry on August 02, 2024 at 18:35:50.

" The last part of the re-engineering of Droitwich Transmitting Station was nearing completion at the end of the 1980s. This was the replacement of the original Diesel Alternators by new, more efficient machines. The four English Electric sets, admired by so many visitors in the past were scrapped and their place has been taken by two high-speed turbo-charged machines which take up half the space of the originals and provide more power! These new engines are fully automated, running themselves up in a few seconds when required in a power failure. In comparision the old machines, being manually controlled, took about twenty minutes to prepare for service with a consequent break in programmes of this duration if a failure of incoming power occurred. The completion of the re-engineering meant that the front part of the 1934 building, now empty, had become redundant. After remaining an empty shell for some time, it has now been demolished." Droitwich Calling, John F. Philips 1994 Full article https://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscences/Droitwich/droitwich_calling.htm (Mike Barraclough - BDXC)

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