This test pattern was used during the 90's and was one of the best ways of telling us when we were younger that there was a bad thunderstorm approaching. Since the main repeater towers for the ABC, Channel 7 and SBS were located on the same mountain, if this ever came on when we were watching tv, we'd just have to go look out to the south west and we'd know why Art Attack or The Ferals had to be interrupted
Yes, same! I'm guessing you might have lived in Hobart, given that the transmission came from all the same place? I remember looking out the Window in the same direction to look at Mt Wellington. Early 80's baby here
@@jessicalamb2748 We live in Queensland in the Wide Bay Burnett region. Our television transmissions get repeated from Mt Goonaneman on the Great Dividing Range southwest of Childers. Any severe storm that formed on the eastern side of the range would always disrupt the repeater, either by knocking out its power or interfering with the transmission signals. Now’days the screens go full pixelated. The old VHF/UHF disruption screens were much more enjoyable!
I wonder what the ABC Test Pattern was for 1987 where I really started watching this channel for all my entertainment/edutainment when I took days off primary school?!...
If the ident is ABC Television it's usually being fed to the network from the capital city. Saturday mornings they would drop the network feed as a test and all stations would transmit the local testcard. You would then see idents like ABEV1 Bendigo, ABRV3 Ballarat and so on. Rockhampton doesn't fit, so the ident was ABRQ3 Rockhampto. Sometimes we would see A.B.C. National TV in Victoria. That one (I was told) came from Sydney rather than Melbourne. Those were the days.
Television stations should bring back the Test Pattern and music it'll get the kids off their backside and get them outside playing instead of playing with devices and mobile phones!!
i miss test pattern BRING IT BACK there is nothing on tv now. All you get is football and reality. Who cares about people dating naked
9 лет назад+2
+Keir Waterman But not on ABC... while I was in Australia all I get from ABC was politics, economy and talk shows :D Reality and football remained forn 9 Network and Channel 7 :D
ABC over these past 20+ years has gone left and woke, can't believe that I'm saying this but I'd rather that the channel just ends itself before and our own memories of it get any more worse or damaged....
MAVPFT Angyafold i Know that I was talking about the other stations as wlll. The abc is not as good as it was but it is much better than the rubbish you get on the other channels
9 лет назад+4
+Keir Waterman Well... it's a fact it was more interesting to watch ABC for me while I was in Brisby last year. News seemed to be unpartial (which are in Hungary are rather censored) and they have good shows indeed. I still watch ABC's broadcasts
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This test pattern was used during the 90's and was one of the best ways of telling us when we were younger that there was a bad thunderstorm approaching. Since the main repeater towers for the ABC, Channel 7 and SBS were located on the same mountain, if this ever came on when we were watching tv, we'd just have to go look out to the south west and we'd know why Art Attack or The Ferals had to be interrupted
Yes! I remember this clearly. (80's baby, 90's kid here)
Yes, same! I'm guessing you might have lived in Hobart, given that the transmission came from all the same place?
I remember looking out the Window in the same direction to look at Mt Wellington.
Early 80's baby here
@@jessicalamb2748 We live in Queensland in the Wide Bay Burnett region. Our television transmissions get repeated from Mt Goonaneman on the Great Dividing Range southwest of Childers. Any severe storm that formed on the eastern side of the range would always disrupt the repeater, either by knocking out its power or interfering with the transmission signals. Now’days the screens go full pixelated. The old VHF/UHF disruption screens were much more enjoyable!
Wouldn't mind this replacing the early morning/late night programming
Fabulous music!
Philips VCR SP tape = This PM5544 test card was engineered and created by Finn Hendil representing Philips Electrics back in 1966.
I wonder what the ABC Test Pattern was for 1987 where I really started watching this channel for all my entertainment/edutainment when I took days off primary school?!...
Still a better watch than the infomercial channels
If the ident is ABC Television it's usually being fed to the network from the capital city. Saturday mornings they would drop the network feed as a test and all stations would transmit the local testcard. You would then see idents like ABEV1 Bendigo, ABRV3 Ballarat and so on. Rockhampton doesn't fit, so the ident was ABRQ3 Rockhampto. Sometimes we would see A.B.C. National TV in Victoria. That one (I was told) came from Sydney rather than Melbourne.
Those were the days.
I remember this across the screen back in 1982 when my parents brought our first colour TV when I was two years old. On our old wooden box, the AWA.
Great stuff, I remember as a kid waking up early almost every day to watch test patten on TV.
Good ABC station ID with Never Can Say Goodbye👌
This was often on when I first got up in the morning to get ready for school..a memory of more innocent, better times.
a legend of Australian tv using pm5544 exist on 1974-1990s
Television stations should bring back the Test Pattern and music it'll get the kids off their backside and get them outside playing instead of playing with devices and mobile phones!!
New Zealand had this test patter with NZBC -COLOUR on 31-october-1973 when we changed to colour broadcasting.
Mad to think that Australia had only gone colour that year.
i miss test pattern BRING IT BACK there is nothing on tv now. All you get is football and reality. Who cares about people dating naked
+Keir Waterman But not on ABC... while I was in Australia all I get from ABC was politics, economy and talk shows :D Reality and football remained forn 9 Network and Channel 7 :D
True!! I want it back too!
ABC3 station closes and I might have a way to bring back the test pattern.
ABC over these past 20+ years has gone left and woke, can't believe that I'm saying this but I'd rather that the channel just ends itself before and our own memories of it get any more worse or damaged....
I've upgraded the looks on this test pattern through my RUclips channel and been working on this for more than 5 years.
This is brilliant!
Mate you are a champion. Thanks for posting. Great stuff A wonderful piece of Aussie TV History
Better than the rubbish on our ‘smart’ tvs now.
thanks for the post. I used to do a lot of TV DX and recall the test card used by the ABC well
It was a Sign-On sequence?
Cool music to go to bed to
@AccordionManiac Here here
oh yes i remember seeing this in the early 80's
MAVPFT Angyafold i Know that I was talking about the other stations as wlll. The abc is not as good as it was but it is much better than the rubbish you get on the other channels
+Keir Waterman Well... it's a fact it was more interesting to watch ABC for me while I was in Brisby last year. News seemed to be unpartial (which are in Hungary are rather censored) and they have good shows indeed. I still watch ABC's broadcasts
1975 first Phillips test card in colour.before this same test card in black and white TV sets.
They paid the bills just fine before 24 hour programming!
Wait until October 2019.
On the 23rd October 2019 I had released a new video clip called "Get Ya Groove On" using this test pattern. It's nothing like what you seen.
Memories
Yes it did, on March the 1st
Didnt know people had VCR's in 1975...
@martbd can't believe i didn't realize that, martbd
You'd think that would be the sensible thing to do.
Was this broadcasted according to PAL/SECAM or NTSC standards?
Very much PAL
was this recorded from the ABC in Victoria ?
as each State had a slightly different way of presenting the test card
All right I'm going to bed everyone, night night.
This one is the ABC So the same way they always have. With tax payers money
xD