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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`re illiterate.
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.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.canalworld.net Canal World (Forum)
www.keepbritaintidy.org Keep Britain Tidy........ (there`s a clue in the name)
www.bing.com/maps Bing maps (Ordnance Survey)
www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/World-
www.screenonline Colour Television Chronology
www.paras.org.uk Don`t get ripped off for digital !
www.radioandtelly.co.uk Radio & Telly forums TV technical page.
The “Office for Communications” site. The technical guidance pages are probably most relevant for TV reception issues, including :
Ofcom transmitter location maps
The second best aerials website in the country,
and it`s also based in Sheffield !
“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.
Nothing whatsoever to do with anything on this site but my favourite Heritage Railway ! Try the dining trains, you won`t be disappointed.
www.noiseabatementsociety.com “Keep it down old son......”
www.railrovers.org.uk Get out, and explore !
www.favicon.co.uk Get one of those nifty little Favicons (Favourites Icon) for your web site.
Marvellous site telling you how much of a “Rip Off” 0870 numbers are and how you can sometimes get round them.
If you`ve found this site informative and, hopefully, interesting as well,
Calling all bean poles ! How some of the train
companies are nicking your legroom, the people who think that`s fine ( ! ? ! ), and my satirical answer.......
TV and Radio transmission and reception site including the
“Transmitter Gallery”, and Transmitter maps.
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)
www.bbc.co.uk/reception BBC reception advice website (not as good as it used to be.....)
Everything about motorways, including all the openings.
As I`ve got a bit older I`ve rather gone off driving (too many cars
on the road, of which far too many are driven by wazzocks),
but this site is fascinating, particularly for those of us with a slightly autistic interest in dates.
Taylor`s of Oldham : RF transmission and reception, plus specialists in distribution systems for large buildings etc.
Mike Smith`s transmitter gallery.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums Digital Spy`s Freeview “technical” forum.
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.
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 have some useful info, particularly the Digital UK Almanac (whatever that means), also see their Transmitter Network,
Transmitter Groups and When Do I Switch pages.
Plus Full Switchover Dates and Regional Transmitters (set on Yorkshire but the others are available via drop down menu), very useful.
Try the postcode predictor of digital reception (tick trade view),
but the predictor is a start, and not necessarily a finish....