Item 9400

Slides

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9400

A collection of slides related to Transmission of Television signals.

9400.1 Hot air exhaust ducts

               ABWQ Filter Diplexers and Patch Panels (West Queensland ABC)

               WBQ Filter Diplexers and Patch Panels (Wide Bay Chanel 7)

9400.2 TV Control Room Transmitter Station

               Microwave and TV

9400.3 ABWQ / WBQ Antenna

9400.4 Control Desk

               Black Mountain Translator Monitoring

               L to R

Powerboard, GPU Alarms, ABWQ Control, Input, Output, ABWQ monitoring, WBQ Monitoring, WBQ control.

TA’s Visible through windows.

9400.5 Microwave TV

9400.6 Supervising Tech Mr Francis at Control Board

               Mt. Goonaneman T.V. Station

9400.7 WBQ Antenna Dish

               WBQ Marelli FV14 Links

Wow, I worked as a technician in training at Mt. Goonaneman in the early 1970s. Max Francis was the OIC and Kerry Jones was the shift leader I worked under. The TV in the control room with the test pattern on it was for monitoring the translators at Black Mountain for coverage into Gympie. That was the only way of knowing the translators were on air. The other translators at Monto were too far away to be monitored off air, so the local Post Master would ring up if a problem occured. The receiving dish for the commercial service as shown in another photo was in the control room behind the operators desk and looked through the wall of the building that was made of fibreglass. It picked up the signal from the WBQ studios at Granville in Maryborough. The ABC TV service (ABWQ6) used two AWA 5kw transmitters in parallel. The commercial service (WBQ8) used an AWA 2kw transmitter with a 10kw Power Amplifier.

Comments

  • September 17, 2025
    Peter Wrensted

    Wow, I worked as a technician in training at Mt. Goonaneman in the early 1970s. Max Francis was the OIC and Kerry Jones was the shift leader I worked under. The TV in the control room with the test pattern on it was for monitoring the translators at Black Mountain for coverage into Gympie. That was the only way of knowing the translators were on air. The other translators at Monto were too far away to be monitored off air, so the local Post Master would ring up if a problem occured. The receiving dish for the commercial service as shown in another photo was in the control room behind the operators desk and looked through the wall of the building that was made of fibreglass. It picked up the signal from the WBQ studios at Granville in Maryborough. The ABC TV service (ABWQ6) used two AWA 5kw transmitters in parallel. The commercial service (WBQ8) used an AWA 2kw transmitter with a 10kw Power Amplifier.

    • October 31, 2025
      henrye

      Hi Peter,
      Apologies for not getting back to you sooner.
      Thankyou for your comments and I have placed it in the 9400 item of the website. Thankyou for looking.
      There is still a lot of items to go up on the site.
      Regards
      HEnry

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