2LO
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 857 kHz |
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| ERP | 100 watts |
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2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the United Kingdom (the first was 2MT). It began broadcasting on 11 May 1922, for one hour a day from the seventh floor of Marconi House in London's Strand, opposite Somerset House.
History
Initially the power was 100 watts on 360 metres (832 kHz). 2LO was allowed to transmit for seven minutes, after which the "operator" had to listen on the wavelength for three minutes for possible instructions to close down. On 14 November 1922 the station was transferred to the new British Broadcasting Company which in 1923 took up the nearby Savoy Hill for its broadcasting studios. At midnight on New Year's Eve 1923, the twelve chimes of Big Ben were broadcast for the first time to mark the new year.[1]
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.
Preservation and legacy
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The 2LO transmitter now belongs to the Science Museum, having been donated by Crown Castle International on 7 November 2002.[2][3] 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 Melbourne which, since 1932, has been a part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The station, 3LO (officially VL3LO), still has this callsign allocated to it, but since 2000 it has used different on-air names: as from 2017, it was 774 ABC Melbourne; and it is now ABC Radio Melbourne.[5]
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 two works by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring her detective Lord Peter Wimsey: the 1926 novel Clouds of Witness[7] and the 1928 short story "The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question".[8]
A 2LO broadcast with a weather forecast and news bulletin is mentioned in Chapter V of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Maracot Deep, first published as a serial in 1927.[9]
2LO is mentioned in Chapter 32 of Anthony Burgess's 1980 novel Earthly Powers, as part of a fictional episode involving the narrator's brother.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Macdonald, Peter (2004). Big Ben : the bell, the clock and the tower. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-3827-7. OCLC 56657409.
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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gift to nation marks BBC's 80th anniversary". BBC Press Office. 3 November 2002. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Science Museum Gets Original BBC Transmitter". Culture24. 8 November 2002. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Callsign Database". www.qrz.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sayers, Dorothy L. (1926). Clouds of Witness. London: T. Fisher Unwin. ISBN 0-06-080835-7.
London calling," said the unseen voice impartially. "2LO calling. Here is the weather forecast.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sayers, Dorothy L. (1928). "The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question". Lord Peter Views the Body. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-1-4736-2132-9.
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
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Conan Doyle, Arthur (1929). "V". The Maracot Deep : and other stories. London: J Murray. OCLC 5685345.
"2L.O. calling," cried a clear voice. "London calling the British Isles. Weather forecast." Then followed the usual sentence about depressions and anticyclones. "First News Bulletin. His Majesty the King this morning opened the new wing of the Children's Hospital in Hammersmith—" and so on and on, in the familiar strain.
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
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