Courtesy of ex NZBC staffer Clyde Cunningham
Location: HOES Majoribanks St., Wellington
Clyde Cunningham on left, Brian Cosnett on right.
The panel with the knobs is the CCU for an EMI2001 colour camera.
A temporary microwave link was set up to send the signal to Mt. KauKau transmitter site. Colour bars were transmitted for a few minutes but we didn't have a colour receiver to see the transmission.
The photo was taken by John Dagg.
A visitor to the site sent some information relating to Brian Cosnett:
There is a memorial stone for Brian Cosnett under a large tree at the Avalon backlot (Still there as of Jan 2018). I came here to put a face to the name on the mold covered plaque.
Harry
COLOUR TV Transmission In Capital
(New Zealand Press Association WELLINGTON, February 15 1970.
The first trial transmission of colour television in New Zealand was made in Wellington last week by engineers of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
Announcing this late yesterday the Director General of the N.Z.B.C. (Mr G. H. Stringer) said quite encouraging results had been obtained.
The tests began last Monday at the N.Z.B.C. transmitter on Mount Kau Kau on internal systems and a signal was put up the link to equipment in the Manawatu, where it was received in black and white.
These tests were from a colour bar generator, which is an electronic device producing a colour pattern. The next day, said Mt Stringer, a test was made from Mount Kau Kau to a monitor at the engineering section of the N.Z.B.C. in Majoribanks Street, Wellington.
Further experiments were made the next day and on Thursday a colour camera was used.
Still-life pictures, including a girl sitting in a chair, a bowl of flowers, and colour posters were relayed from Majoribanks Street to Mount Kau Kau and were received on a monitor back at Majoribanks Street, in the same room as the camera.
A comparison was then made on picture quality and colour definition. Mr Stringer said the testing was at a rudimentary stage. An enormous amount of engineering work and trials would have to be undertaken before colour transmissions could take place.
Most countries experimented for five years or more before introducing colour television, he said. In Britain the experiments lasted about 15 years.
New Zealand engineers would first need to find out what equipment was needed to control colour quality and make existing equipment suitable for colour transmission.
He said that wherever possible since 1967 the N.Z.B.C. had purchased colour-capable equipment.
The tests last week were made outside normal transmission hours. The N.Z.B.C.’s chief engineer in Wellington (Mr A. K. Richardson) said yesterday that colour transmission tests would now proceed when time and equipment allowed.
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