Relay Reception
69. The receiving station is part of the Cable & Wireless centre at Mount Butler on Hong Kong Island. During the year a total of 2,406 English and 1,042 Chinese programmes were received from over- seas broadcast stations and rebroadcast locally. Reception conditions were fairly good throughout the year.
Studios
70. Recording of programmes has continued at a high level and all studios in Broadcasting House and Sutherland House have been in constant use. The following table shows the details:
Recorded Programme
Year
1968-69 1969-70
社
Programme Items
7,138
7,594
-Hours
3,679
4,403
Portable tape recorders were booked out on about 10,000 occasions during the year,
Outside Broadcasts
71. An increase in the number of outside broadcasts carried out was registered this year and the monthly average over the past two years was:
1968-69 1969-70
Year
Number of O.B. per month
45 50
Mobile VHF transmitters were used extensively in outside broadcasts.
Telephone On-The-Air Unit
72. This unit was designed and produced for listeners to telephone Radio Hong Kong for programmes such as 'Late Call' and 'Telephone Quiz'. It changes a telephone from a two-wire into a four-wire system.
Experimental Stereo Broadcasts
73. A stereo broadcast was set up experimentally in June 1969 using the pilot tone system. The transmitting site was in Broadcasting House using two 3-element Yagi aerials directed at Sheung Wan and North Point. They were driven by a 40 watt-VHF power amplifier with 4 wave length matching network. Field strength coverage was good and a minimum of 200 uV/M could be obtained within the built-up areas of Kowloon and Hong Kong.
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