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The company started in the late 1980s, supplying equipment to unlicensed broadcasters. At that time it was based in north London. The highly regulated broadcast industry in the UK at that time meant that the market was not open to small companies. At the end of the 1980s, the UK radio industry was
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The design of most of the products used sealed cases (no ventilation) and linear power supplies. This resulted in very long life, particularly when used in dirty environments. The sealed cases meant that the electronics were protected from dirt and corrosion. Products such as the exciters, audio
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In 2002, SBS effectively merged with
Eddystone Radio, the UK's oldest manufacturer of high power radio transmitters (in fact SBS had taken over Eddystone). In the years after the merger, it was the SBS brand that gradually disappeared as the products were replaced with new Eddystone versions. SBS
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Also during the 1990s, SBS became sales agents for some other equipment such as audio processors. The increased competition in the UK radio industry meant that existing commercial radio stations needed to upgrade their equipment. SBS dominated this upgrade market with audio processors and the
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The company produced a range of products that were associated with FM broadcast radio transmission. During the 1990s the company produced audio limiting and stereo encoding products at a time when commercial broadcasters throughout the UK were needing to upgrade this type of equipment.
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The FM30 exciter was a development from the original FM25. The main difference being the amplifier module and an uprated mains transformer. The FM25 first appeared in 1990. The production of these exciters ran for more than 20 years with many hundreds being produced.
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The company produced a range of cable head end equipment for multichannel audio distribution. These included low power versions of the FMLP2 and FM10 exciters and a 4-channel version called
Quadmod. Passive combiners were also made with varying numbers of inputs.
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SBS started in North London. It moved to
Hastings, East Sussex in 1991. In 2002, the company was moved to Pitchill near Evesham in Warwickshire with Eddystone Radio. A few years later, SBS/Eddystone moved to Alcester in Warwickshire where the company remains.
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