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etillet wrote:
There were 4 places in England where I know this infrastructure was put
in by the GPO.

Swindon
Milton Keynes
Westminster
The "Eastern District" of Northampton.


When my uncle moved to Bedford (Goldington) about 30 years ago his new
council house had some sort of pre-installed radio & TV distribution
system. I think it was called "multisignal".
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Bruce wrote:

etillet wrote:
There were 4 places in England where I know this infrastructure was put
in by the GPO.

Swindon
Milton Keynes
Westminster
The "Eastern District" of Northampton.


When my uncle moved to Bedford (Goldington) about 30 years ago his new
council house had some sort of pre-installed radio & TV distribution
system. I think it was called "multisignal".



Rediffusion?

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Tony Polson wrote:

Rediffusion?


Rediffusion used a system about as basic as you can get - a wire for
each TV or radio channel, with a common return. Oddly enough, I saw
one of their rotary switches (lettered for each channel) a couple of
weeks ago.

One of the problems was that the system wasn't up to higher
frequencies. Some details of their Hull installation he

http://www.hackhull.com/projects/rediffusion/index.html

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