Talk:BT site engineering code

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Many years ago, 1968-9, I was given a tour round Dial House Manchester, as part of a school project. I was shown the distribution panel for the links controlled from there. Winter Hill, the main broadcast TX station in the area was referred to as YRIV, the RIV coming from Rivington Pike, the actual name for the area where Winter Hill was. I have therefore added the YRIV designation into the list --Keith 23:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have a set of the THQ1141 from late 1980 which lists the codes in use at the time. I do not want to publish them as a lot of the sites are still in use and although there aren't any addresses, I don't feel comfortable to share them. I can confirm that these codes did exist and that Y codes were radio and customer sites (YBLA was the British Leyland site in Longbridge, now demolised). The Z codes shown were coastal radio stations, however there were also a lot of exchanges in there. The Q codes listed seem to be military sites, when I worked for the Post Office we always said that Q stood for quiet and QQ for really quiet ie underground, but again there were exchange codes in there as well. I hope that this will go some way towards reliable citation for engineering codes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by G1cbk (talk • contribs) 23:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I really don't see how anything in this article is of interest to anyone who doesn't work in BT (and therefore has access to much better sources of information on the subject). The PROD tag was removed but without in any way addressing the reason it was added, just adding a rather tenuous reference for one small detail - I say tenuous because the only thing the referenced article says that's even vaguely related to this page is "Q is Post Office jargon for hush-hush", as an aside to explain the name "Q-Whitehall", and it's quite a stretch to say that that implies anything at all about such a thing as a "site engineering code" or the notability thereof. Unless there are any public documents that talk about site codes specifically, I maintain that this page is useless and unverifiable. --81.152.130.54 (talk) 12:48, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well I don't work for BT but find it of interest. Presumably so do the editors of dozens of WP articles that link to it. The article may be of little interest to most people, but it's doing no harm, it's not as if WP has limited space, and WP doesn't do censorship. So I say leave it alone.--Harumphy (talk) 15:49, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't work for BT either! However, I find this incredibly useful for historical research relating to the preservation of historical telecomms equipment. I'll be expanding this list when I can and making regular reference to it! Grant More (talk) 09:07, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Three more: YTVC = BBC Television Centre, YZAR = BBC Broadcasting House London and YHOG = TV-am building, Camden Town. I was told that the last was derived from "Henlys Old Garage" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.159.120.175 (talk) 02:26, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]