Engineering - Cable Pulling

On Monday we began the new term by removing all of the cabling from the Presentation suite. As we had previously taken all of the equipment out and stacked it up in TV systems it seemed pointless to just leave the cabling underneath the bays, just waiting to be taken out after the move. Instead we saw an opportunity to re-use this cabling and in doing so, hopefully save ourselves some money.

The plan is to use a lot of the long coax in the Talent Showdown pre-record which is scheduled for this Sunday (28th) and basically make up the long cable runs from the cameras to the vision mixer by barreling lengths of coax together. Once this is over we can then begin cleaning up the cables and readying them for Matter, although we tried to keep the ends on many of the cables (again to decrease the amount material we'd have to buy in) we will inevitably have to re-end some of them and while this is being done we can ensure that we have batches of cables that are the right length for inter-equipment connection in our fly-away.

I'll post some pictures of the cabling up when we start inspecting it for Talent Showdown.