Talk:BT site engineering code

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)

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)