{"id":1104,"date":"2012-08-04T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T10:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2012-08-04T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T10:56:02","slug":"test-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/08\/test-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ewing has kindly given me some pages of BBC Engineering Information Dept material explaining Test Card C. \u00a0I know that out in the world there used to be a whole cult (is that the right word?) of test card appreciators. They&#8217;d write to Presentation asking about the music, and of course, to EID about the vision&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/ewing_test_card_1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1106\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1106\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0001_low-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Test card C\" width=\"640\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0001_low-700x1024.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0001_low-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/ewing_test_card_3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1108\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1108\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0002_low-709x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0002_low-709x1024.jpg 709w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0002_low-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/ewing_test_card_4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1117\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1117\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ewing_test_card_4-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ewing_test_card_4-703x1024.jpg 703w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ewing_test_card_4-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-ops.co.uk\/ewing_test_card_2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1107\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1107\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_001_low-743x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_001_low-743x1024.jpg 743w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_001_low-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_001_low.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to say, though, that the bit I like best is this next &#8211; a compliments slip from EID. \u00a0The first communication I ever received from the BBC was a copy of Technical Careers in the Engineering Division, and it came with one of these. I still have it somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/08\/test-cards\/comp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1105\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1105\" title=\"comp\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/comp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/comp.jpg 480w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/comp-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2010\/12\/stories-6\/ianfootersmall_for-wordpress-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-514\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-514\" title=\"ianfootersmall_for wordpress\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ianfootersmall_for-wordpress1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ianfootersmall_for-wordpress1.jpg 348w, http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ianfootersmall_for-wordpress1-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Ewing has kindly given me some pages of BBC Engineering Information Dept material explaining Test Card C. \u00a0I know that out in the world there used to be a whole cult (is that the right word?) of test card &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2012\/08\/test-cards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bernard Newnham","author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/bern333\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/category\/pics\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pictures<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pictures<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 14 years ago","modified":"Updated 14 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 4, 2012","modified":"Updated on August 4, 2012"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 4, 2012 10:43 am","modified":"Updated on August 4, 2012 10:56 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}