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TV & Radio : Aerials & Reception etc
tx.mb21.co.uk TV and Radio transmission and reception site including the
“Transmitter Gallery”, and Transmitter maps.
www.bbc.co.uk/reception BBC reception advice website (not as good as it used to be.....)
including TV transmitters and Radio transmitters.
Also see Transmitter Reminiscences
PDFs etc :
Effects of trees (dead as at 19 Apr 2010)
Effects of high buildings and windfarms (dead as at 19 Apr 2010)
Terrestrial transmission page of “arquiva” (spx). They bought out the transmission arm of NTL, who bought the ex ITV (IBA) transmitters.
Also bought out National Grid Wireless in Sept 2009.
Arquiva (spx) are not one of my favourite companies.
First, they refused to tell me what the radiation patterns were for their transmitters.
I say bring back the days when the -
Second, I heard that when a photographer (taking pics for MB21) was
shown round one of their sites by contractors working there, they handed
out official warnings that such helpfulness wouldn`t be tolerated.
Tossers.
They should learn something about Health & Safety Bollocks,
Third, they can`t spell.
www.nationalgridwireless.com National Grid Wireless, they bought out Crown Castle
who originally purchased the ex BBC transmitters.
Sold out to Arquiva (sic), see above, in September 2009.
They probably weren`t any better than Arquiva (sic),
but at least they can spell.
www.mds975.co.uk Mike Smith`s radio (and other things ! ) site.
www.wolfbane.com/articles/tvr Wolfbane`s UK TV reception page.
www.stevelarkins.freeuk.com Steve Larkin`s amateur radio site from Newbury.
www.davidstransmitterworld.com David Allen`s TV aerial and transmitter site from Ilkeston.
www.sam-
TV Related
www.chsinteractive.co.uk Charles Hyde TV spares etc, York UK.
www.irwinelectronics.co.uk Irwin Electronics TV spares etc, Stocksbridge Sheffield.
www.radiolistenersguide.co.uk Radio Listeners Guide and Television Viewers Guide.
www.peakelec.co.uk Manufacturers of those great little component testers.
(They`re pretty good actually, we`ve got two of them !)
Technical (other)
www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime Where the power goes.....
www.pylons.org And how it gets there......
Other
www.encams.org Keep Britain Tidy........ (there`s a clue in the name)
www.saynoto0870.com Marvellous site telling you how much of a “Rip Off” 0870 numbers
are and how you can sometimes get round them.
www.brake.org.uk “Brake” the road safety charity.
Be careful on the roads, they`re dangerous.
Better 10 minutes late in this life..................
....................than 10 years early in the next.
en.wikipedia.org The internet encyclopedia.
www.noiseabatementsociety.com “Keep it down old son......”
www.railrovers.org.uk Get out, and explore !
www.gcrailway.co.uk Nothing whatsoever to do with anything on this site but my
favourite Heritage Railway !
Try the dining trains, you won`t be disappointed.
disused-
www.insco.us/en/pesas.php Insco scientific services, including calibrated test weights,
which would`ve been handy for our pole tests !
www.favicon.co.uk Get one of those nifty little Favicons (Favourites Icon) for your web site.
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please help us increase the number of people reading it.
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www.wrightsaerials.tv The second best aerials website in the country,
and it`s also based in Sheffield !
www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/World-
www.tvhistory Colour Television Chronology
www.paras.org.uk/ Don`t get ripped off for digital !
www.radioandtelly.co.uk Radio & Telly forums TV technical page.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums Digital Spy`s Freeview “technical” forum.
The Digital TV Group, a site to promote Digital TV. They`re not going to like this site much are they ? Not that I care, I`m a Yorkshireman so I`ll tell it how it is ! The technical info was at www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/ but
now they don`t really give much technical info of any use at all, they just direct you to the Ofcom website (see above).......
Digital UK are more use, esp the Digital UK Almanac (whatever that means), also see their Transmitter Network, Transmitter Groups and When Do I Switch pages. Also see Full Switchover Dates, very useful.
The “Office for Communications” site.
The technical guidance pages are probably most relevant for TV reception issues, including pre DSO TV frequencies.
This is where all “post DSO” frequencies are FIRST released.