All posts by Corin
Below are all of Corin's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Michael: You do not need to go to "$ky".
All BBC TV stations are available Free to Air via satellite, so all that is required is a dish and a generic satellite receiver without any payment to B$KyB.
Similarly all ITV stations in standard definition as well as ITV-1 HD, Channel 4, Five etc are also transmitted from satellite Free To Air.
Please see the table at
http://www.lyngsat.com/28…html
for the stations listend on a pale yellow (except those indicated for West Africa beam) or pale green background which can be received with a dish and FTA receiver.
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The ERP for Storeton Wales multiplexes is stated as being 2 kW.
Is not this figure incorrect, and should only be 500 W?
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Dave Lindsay:
What then is the source for this figure or 2 kW ERP?
Are you claiming that OfCon are incorrect on page 7 of their document at
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
which states an ERP of 500 W and that Digital UK are also incorrect on page 4 of their document at
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
which also states an ERP of 500 W?
2 kW is high power and is the ERP of the main transmitter, Moel-y-Parc, not Storeton Wales.
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"2 kW is high power and is the ERP of the main transmitter, Moel-y-Parc, not Storeton Wales."
Correction -- ERP of Moel-y-Parc is 20 kW,
not 2 kW.
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"merely stating information found elsewhere."
Well the source of that information is what I am trying to obtain.
"Two sources quote 2kW for Storeton Wales"
Thank you for the links. On that page going back to the earliest licence document covering all multiplexes -- version 2 -- dated March 16th, 2011, that also shews Storeton Wales as 2 kW.
So sometime between January 2011 and March 2011, an increase in the ERP of Storeton Wales was approved and presumably put into operation.
As you surely appreciate, trying to find reliable information from either the OfCon site or the Digital UK site requires significant effort if one does not know where each has buried the relevant documentation and requiring a PDF download to view.
Thank you for your assistance.
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Something else I just noticed is that under the Transmission Frequencies
"After Wednesday 2nd December 2009"
Storeton Wales PSB-3 (BBC B) on UHF channel 60 is missing!
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With the closure of Channel M which was the nation's only local digital TV station, and the pronouncement of the owning company's manager that Jeremy Hunt's policy on local TV were totally unsuitable for making a profit, is it likely than any of these proposed local TV stations will ever go on air?
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On this page you correctly indicate that ITV-3 is available on the Freesat EPG, but something has gone wrong on the "Compare TV"
web page at
<http://www.ukfree.TV/compare11.php?opt=3&type=radio>
where it shows under
"Channels on Freeview Light, but not on Freesat"
ITV-3
which is clearly wrong since ITV-3 is not available on Freview Light but is available on Freesat.
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Mike Dimmick: Thanks for the technical details and link for the helicopter installation.
It only shows how far the UK has fallen behind in engineering skills when Arqiva (majority owned by the Canada Pension Plan, followed by the Australian bank McQuarrie) has to use a Swiss company to do the heavy lifting.
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Thursday 15 March 2012 4:37PM
Michael: the purchase of a television broadcast receiving licence in no way guarantees you reception of any TV, therefore your question is moot.
If you do watch broadcast TV whether by cable, internet, satellite, or terrestrial transmission, no matter how infrequently, it is required that the receiver is covered by a licence.