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Date of upload: Apr 18, 2024 ^^
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You've had 114 accidents because of looking at antennas? I love you, man. You're just like me. When my daughter was barely able to talk and we were riding down the interstate, she would very often point and call out "Tower, daddy... tower!".
Yep, I'm always looking at towers and antennas everywhere I go. Love your videos!
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On high ground in Glossop you will often see two TV antenna's facing different directions. One vertically polarised for the Glossop repeater and one normally high gain horizontally polarised for winter hill.
The reason for this is the Glossop repeater doesn't give us all the channels that are available from winter hill, like Sky news ect.
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The satellite dish at 8:56 is for DAB Backhaul.
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I grew up in the west Midlands, 7 miles from Sutton Coldfield as our main uhf site.
I was always fascinated by tv and radio reception, and when I started to learn the tv trade I managed to get hold of some surplus uhf aerials and started to play around in the loft.
I managed to get Granada from winter hill, with borderline colour, and also htv Wales and s4c.
These were both constant signals, but on occasional times, due to tropospheric conditions I also received Anglia tv from sandy heath.
It was my holy grail to try and receive itv London, but sadly I never managed this.
Needless to say, I also became a vhf 2 metre radio ham.
Those were the days.
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I knew a guy whose small community was near the beach, on the wrong side of a hill from the TV transmission tower. The community's developer decided to do what was fashionable then, and install a relay tower that received the analog TV signals and sent them down pre-installed coaxial cable to all the homes. Homeowners would then pay a monthly fee for access.
Until one day, the developer went bankrupt and the coaxial cables went dead.
The residents association took over the relay with the help of a technically-minded local resident, but the signal that reached the houses was pretty rubbish. I think they realized that they had no hope of supporting the repairs of decoder boxes, so this was never going to be a long-term solution. Fortunately, analog TV was being phased out and the government gave grants to people in this community to have satellite dishes installed instead.
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I used to live in Didcot Oxfordshire, starting in the 70's we had 3 antennas on our roof pointing in different directions, coming down to a couple of switches, our best reception was midlands TV (now central), but we had the option of getting London or Southernn TV, though sometimes a litle more grainy, several programmes were regional, so it was a way to get alternatives, this was before Sky TV was poplular.
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I live in Ireland....before the advent of Digital signals most houses here had 3 aerials, 1 for receiving signals from local transmitters broadcasting the National TV stations, 1 aerial for receiving independent TV from large distant high power transmitters and another aerial for receiving UK signals either directly from the UK or from illegal deflector systems. Many houses also had satellite dishes as well and possibly an FM radio antenna so there was also another level of complexity. I spent 40 years installing these aerials and dishes and there was never a dull moment they were good times and reasonably profitable but I fear streaming services will ultimately replace everything.
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@christianblack2916
2 weeks ago
My mum and dad lived in Broadbottom just before I was born. The poor TV reception and lack of local entertainment at the time might indirectly be the cause of my existence.
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