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Does anyone know anything about a breakdown at SC on Friday? It allegedly
affected all DTT and C4 analogue for about 40 minutes.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:
Does anyone know anything about a breakdown at SC on Friday? It allegedly
affected all DTT and C4 analogue for about 40 minutes.

Didn't the town of SC suffer serious flooding yesterday, thanks to the rain.
Might have been a direct or indirect result of that ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6759603.stm

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:
Does anyone know anything about a breakdown at SC on Friday? It allegedly
affected all DTT and C4 analogue for about 40 minutes.

Didn't the town of SC suffer serious flooding yesterday, thanks to the
rain.
Might have been a direct or indirect result of that ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6759603.stm


I did wonder. We were in the area and the weather was terrible.

I have had a call from one of Her Majesty's Luxury Hotels telling me that
they lost all the DTT and C4 analogue. What's really odd it that when C4
went off 'Countdown' was replaced by a card with a plain background and the
words 'Channel Four'. I can't see how this could have been generated at the
'hotel'. What a shame that the lads missed 'Countdown'. They love it, those
that can read.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:
Does anyone know anything about a breakdown at SC on Friday? It
allegedly affected all DTT and C4 analogue for about 40 minutes.

Didn't the town of SC suffer serious flooding yesterday, thanks to the
rain. Might have been a direct or indirect result of that ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6759603.stm


I did wonder. We were in the area and the weather was terrible.

I have had a call from one of Her Majesty's Luxury Hotels telling me that
they lost all the DTT and C4 analogue. What's really odd it that when C4
went off 'Countdown' was replaced by a card with a plain background and
the words 'Channel Four'. I can't see how this could have been generated
at the 'hotel'. What a shame that the lads missed 'Countdown'. They love
it, those that can read.

Could the rain have "washed out" a radio link?

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charles wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
I have had a call from one of Her Majesty's Luxury Hotels telling me that
they lost all the DTT and C4 analogue. What's really odd it that when C4
went off 'Countdown' was replaced by a card with a plain background and
the words 'Channel Four'. I can't see how this could have been generated
at the 'hotel'. What a shame that the lads missed 'Countdown'. They love
it, those that can read.

Could the rain have "washed out" a radio link?

Could be, or the water getting into the fibre kit nearby. AIUI both C4
'analogue' and most of the DTT muxes are distributed by fibre to the main Tx
sites. Was the C4 card an 'IBA blue' caption with very a basic font? I'm told
that those 1970s automatic caption generators are still used at some Tx sites,
should the incoming feed of ITV or C4 fail.

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In article ,
Mark Carver wrote:
sites. Was the C4 card an 'IBA blue' caption with very a basic font?

Yes -- and it was not quite in sync, so it rolled up the screen and jittered
about. Very much like the old BBC-B or teletext "Double Height" font, but
spindly.

Mux 1/B/C/D had good signal strength and 100% quality, but no sound/picture,
and "This is service is not running or scrambled" on my DTT receiver.

Mux 2 seemed to drop off completely: Very poor signal and 0% quality.

Mux A was fine!

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Mike wrote:
In article ,
Mark Carver wrote:
sites. Was the C4 card an 'IBA blue' caption with very a basic font?

Yes -- and it was not quite in sync, so it rolled up the screen and jittered
about. Very much like the old BBC-B or teletext "Double Height" font, but
spindly.

Mux 1/B/C/D had good signal strength and 100% quality, but no sound/picture,
and "This is service is not running or scrambled" on my DTT receiver.

Mux 2 seemed to drop off completely: Very poor signal and 0% quality.

Mux A was fine!

Mux A is fed by satellite, not fibre, so that makes sense.

Good to confirm that the old 1970s IBA caption kit is (almost) still working
though !


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On Jun 18, 7:28 am, Mark Carver wrote:

Good to confirm that the old 1970s IBA caption kit is (almost) still working
though !

Good old Goggle !

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continu...ges/itv_79.jpg