Post #2027521
2025-09-17 20:18 UTC
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 2025-09-17 20:26
@leymoo @alicemcalicepants its something the engineers would have *not* been encouraged to do (neither by BT nor the IBA), but they would have got away with it for an inbound calls only set of circuits (BT *really* would not approve of 10 circuits being seized at once for an outbound call!) You /might/ get a retired broadcast engineer confessing to it but some are still in employment so might not fess up to this having happened. Global and Bauer are still very protective of their infrastructure - even recently they tasked Arqiva to look at old infrastructure for Radio Orwell Ipswich and noticed the community radio transmitter in the hospital plant room (which I helped install), although Arqiva were impressed with what we had achieved (and we have a fraction of their budgets!)
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@galaxis@mastodon.infra.de 2025-09-17 21:36
@leymoo I know nothing of this but did some bored web searching, and there's at least one passing mention of something like this on the "Original Capital Radio" facebook group (which strangely is public): https://www.facebook.com/groups/2493776779/posts/10159533720801780/?comment_id=10159534124571780 "In the 1970's we had crossed lines galore when it was 01-388-1255 and chatting with other listeners!" (There's also some discussion of who did what to sneak into their telephone competitions in other threads there...) @vfrmedia @alicemcalicepants