2LO
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| History | |
First air date | 11 May 1922 |
Last air date | 9 March 1930 |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | General Post Office |
| ERP | 100 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 51°30′43″N 0°07′06″W / 51.511994°N 0.118383°W |
2LO was the second
History
Initially the power was 100 watts on 360 metres (832
In 1927 the company became the British Broadcasting Corporation. On 9 March 1930 2LO was replaced by the BBC Regional Programme and the BBC National Programme. The letters LO continued to be used internally as a designation in the BBC for technical operations in the London area (for example, the numbering of all recordings made in London contained LO). The code LO was changed to LN in the early 1970s.
Preservation and legacy
The 2LO transmitter now belongs to the
It is displayed in the Information Age gallery on the second floor of the museum.Marconi House was demolished in 2006, apart from the listed façade, which was incorporated into a new hotel complex.[4] A first-hand account of a broadcast from 2LO is given in The Spell of London by H. V. Morton.
The 'LO' part of 2LO's callsign was adopted in 1924 by the metropolitan radio station in
The amateur radio callsign G2LO is currently held by the staff association at Arqiva, formerly Crown Castle International, formerly the domestic part of BBC Transmitter Department.[6]
In fiction
2LO is briefly mentioned in the 1928, Lord Peter Wimsey, detective short-story The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question by Dorothy L. Sayers.[7]
2LO is also mentioned in Chapter 32 of Anthony Burgess’s “Earthly Powers” 1980 as part of a fictional episode involving the narrator’s brother Tom Toomey.
References
- OCLC 56657409. Retrieved 1 December 2023 – via www.worldcat.org.
A few days earlier a microphone had been set up on the roof of a nearby building, No. 1 Bridge Street, just opposite the Houses of Parliament. As the time approached midnight the chimes of the Great Clock ringing out the old year were followed on the hour by the twelve deep strokes of Big Ben ringing in the new, and broadcast, by means of a temporary line running to the control room at Savoy Hill, to listeners tuned to 2LO, the BBC's first radio transmitter, then barely a year old.
- ^ "Gift to nation marks BBC's 80th anniversary". BBC Press Office. 3 November 2002. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Science Museum Gets Original BBC Transmitter". Culture24. 8 November 2002. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Marconi House, Strand / Aldwych, London". The Music Hall and Theatre Site. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Radio Melbourne was formerly the slogan for commercial station 3AW. Both 3LO and 3AW are considered rivals for the same audience.
- ^ "Callsign Database". www.qrz.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- OCLC 947925610. Retrieved 1 December 2023 – via www.worldcat.org.
It was by a continual and personal badgering of the Chief Engineer at 2LO on the question of "Why is Oscillation and How is it Done?" that his lordship incidentally unmasked the great Ploffsky gang of Anarchist conspirators,
Sources
- H.V. Morton. 1926, 18th Edition 1948, The spell of London, Methuen & Co Ltd, London.
External links
- The Science Museum: London Calling
- History of Marconi House where 2LO first broadcast
- Audio of 2LO station identification
51°30′43.6″N 0°07′6.2″W / 51.512111°N 0.118389°W
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