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The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. I've done 8+ retunes for the neighbours here in sheltered housing land, with a few more to go. A mixture of integrated DTV's and various STB's ranging from nice to truly dismal but no problems with any of them. Our communal aerial system has one aerial pointing at Waltham for Channel 5 and one at Sandy Heath for the rest, so all boxes and sets were showing spurious channels in the 800+ range. Perhaps this will settle down when Waltham goes DSO in August. -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
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On 13/04/2011 13:57, UnsteadyKen wrote:
The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. Odd, I though BBC1 (ch31) was the last to go at 00.35/40-ish. C5 from Madingley (ch34) had gone by 00.30 I think. Your C5 from Waltham was unaffected, presumably. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. I gave up and turned in at about 01.45, no sign of the new PSB muxes by then. They obviously had more plumbing work to do than for DSO1 a fortnight ago, when the new BBC-A mux came up very quickly. -- Andy |
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m... The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. Ch4 went off almost on the dot of midnight, quickly followed by ITV as it swapped over to The Zone (or whatever that overnight gaming/shopping thing is called). BBC 1 went off air after weather view. Looks like they at least did let running programs finish before hitting the off switch[*]. [*] I have in my mind a sort of huge 'Frankenstein's laboratory' wall mounted knife switch doing the shut off but realistically it was probably just a small logic operated push button or even mouse click. |
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On 13/04/2011 16:05, Andy Wade wrote:
On 13/04/2011 13:57, UnsteadyKen wrote: The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. Odd, I though BBC1 (ch31) was the last to go at 00.35/40-ish. C5 from Madingley (ch34) had gone by 00.30 I think. Madingley RBL'd the Ch 39 flea powered C5 service from Sandy Heath anyway. During lifts it would sometimes end up rebroadcasting BBC 1 Hannington, which is also Ch 39, and in the same direction as Sandy from Mad. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
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On Apr 13, 4:07*pm, "The Hemulen" wrote:
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. Ch4 went off almost on the dot of midnight, quickly followed by ITV as it swapped over to The Zone (or whatever that overnight gaming/shopping thing is called). BBC 1 went off air after weather view. *Looks like they at least did let running programs finish before hitting the off switch[*]. [*] I have in my mind a sort of huge 'Frankenstein's laboratory' wall mounted knife switch doing the shut off but realistically it was probably just a small logic operated push button or even mouse click. You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ Cheers, David. |
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Andy Wade said...
Odd, I though BBC1 (ch31) was the last to go at 00.35/40-ish. C5 from Madingley (ch34) had gone by 00.30 I think. Your C5 from Waltham was unaffected, presumably. I wasn't shure of the exact times, yes C5 is still available. I retuned a Goodmans DTV this afternoon and it appeared to have a lot of channels in the 900 region, the old girl was bit poorly and impatient for Flog It so I didn't hang about to figure out what was going on. -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
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UnsteadyKen wrote:
I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill |
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... UnsteadyKen wrote: I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill Oh, analogue/analog. I thought he meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Loginova -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Bill Wright said...
I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? An overdose of tea; William, a gentleman never refuses a lady. And my head was truly done in by negotiating all those (in)different menu's, and then trying to explain how to find the Jeremy Bloody Kyle show. The worst part are the remote controls, tiny unresponsive things with miniscule buttons and undeciperable hieroglyphs printed in black on dark gray. I had my trusty retuning kit though, a wind up torch and a magnifying glass. -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
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Graham. wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... UnsteadyKen wrote: I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill Oh, analogue/analog. No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. Bill |
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Graham. wrote: "Bill Wright" wrote in message ... UnsteadyKen wrote: I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill Oh, analogue/analog. No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. Don't write in. I meant Ken's spelling of course. Bill. |
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tony sayer said...
goes DSO in August. Perhaps that aerial now needs to be disconnected.. I'll mention it, but last time we had a problem with the system, the council found that they had lost the paperwork when they moved offices http://www.corbycube.com/ so no one knows who installed it and who has the maintenance contract (if any). -- Ken O'Meara http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/ |
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... Graham. wrote: "Bill Wright" wrote in message ... UnsteadyKen wrote: I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill Oh, analogue/analog. No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. I knew what you meant.. -- Brian Gregory. (In the UK) To email me remove the letter vee. |
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... On Apr 13, 4:07 pm, "The Hemulen" wrote: "UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. Ch4 went off almost on the dot of midnight, quickly followed by ITV as it swapped over to The Zone (or whatever that overnight gaming/shopping thing is called). BBC 1 went off air after weather view. Looks like they at least did let running programs finish before hitting the off switch[*]. [*] I have in my mind a sort of huge 'Frankenstein's laboratory' wall mounted knife switch doing the shut off but realistically it was probably just a small logic operated push button or even mouse click. You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ What an utterly useless webpage. It manages to constantly use 100% CPU and bring my PC to a virtual standstill even before I attempt to play the video. -- Brian Gregory. (In the UK) To email me remove the letter vee. |
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Gregory [UK]" writes wrote in message ... On Apr 13, 4:07 pm, "The Hemulen" wrote: "UnsteadyKen" wrote in message m... The great Sandy Heath switch off was a bit of a damp squib. At 12.30 am the analogue channels except for Channel 5 vanished. For the next couple of hours things came and went, but by 03.00 all new muxes were up and running at much improved signal strength. Ch4 went off almost on the dot of midnight, quickly followed by ITV as it swapped over to The Zone (or whatever that overnight gaming/shopping thing is called). BBC 1 went off air after weather view. Looks like they at least did let running programs finish before hitting the off switch[*]. [*] I have in my mind a sort of huge 'Frankenstein's laboratory' wall mounted knife switch doing the shut off but realistically it was probably just a small logic operated push button or even mouse click. You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ What an utterly useless webpage. It manages to constantly use 100% CPU and bring my PC to a virtual standstill even before I attempt to play the video. No problem here, peaked at 44% cpu running the video. Maybe you need to scan for spyware. -- Ian |
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"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m... tony sayer said... goes DSO in August. Perhaps that aerial now needs to be disconnected.. I'll mention it, but last time we had a problem with the system, the council found that they had lost the paperwork when they moved offices http://www.corbycube.com/ so no one knows who installed it and who has the maintenance contract (if any). A sneaky peak in the cupboard and simply unplug it would work wouldn't it. Probably nobody will be able to figure out how to tune in the extra channels anyway so you may be doing them a favour long term ;-). Paul DS |
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... Bill Wright wrote: Graham. wrote: "Bill Wright" wrote in message ... UnsteadyKen wrote: I wasn't shure Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken? Bill Oh, analogue/analog. No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. Don't write in. I meant Ken's spelling of course. Bill. The funny thing is I very nearly owned up to it! Do you know anything about semantics Bill? My daughter is a linguistics student, and the coursework she is doing now came straight off Einstein's blackboard, I kid you not! -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Graham. wrote:
No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. Don't write in. I meant Ken's spelling of course. Bill. The funny thing is I very nearly owned up to it! Do you know anything about semantics Bill? Oh, that stirs ancient memories! When I was training to be a teacher we had to do 'Linguistics'. The lecturer was a tiny American gent who used to sit on his desk and swing his legs. He went on and on about the Indo-European theory until I thought my head would split. I can't remember whether he thought it was true or false. He also had a thing about phonemes, and would make us all say b-b-b-b-b-b-b and k-k-k-k-k-k for what seemed like hours. He was pally with a Welshman on the staff who taught us Classical Mythology. I've never, ever, in my chuffing life been so ****ing bored. They would have spoilt another couple, I can tell you. Some years later I had an OU lecturer who commenced the Geology course with the words, "Now I have to teach you something called Plate Tectonics. I will teach it, as best as I can, but I must inform you now that the theory is nonsense and within the next ten years will be totally discredited." Bill |
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writes In , Ian wrote: In message , "Brian Gregory [UK]" writes [quoting of David's message fixed] wrote in message You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ What an utterly useless webpage. It manages to constantly use 100% CPU and bring my PC to a virtual standstill even before I attempt to play the video. No problem here, peaked at 44% cpu running the video. Maybe you need to scan for spyware. It's not spyware, it's the useless flash video advertising banners on that page. I had the same problem. If you reload the page, you get a different set of advert banners so just keep doing so until it stops giving you the worst of the CPU-hogging ones. HTH I guess my use of Flashblock is a factor then. :¬) -- Ian |
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... Graham. wrote: No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'. Don't write in. I meant Ken's spelling of course. Bill. The funny thing is I very nearly owned up to it! Do you know anything about semantics Bill? Oh, that stirs ancient memories! When I was training to be a teacher we had to do 'Linguistics'. The lecturer was a tiny American gent who used to sit on his desk and swing his legs. He went on and on about the Indo-European theory until I thought my head would split. I can't remember whether he thought it was true or false. He also had a thing about phonemes, and would make us all say b-b-b-b-b-b-b and k-k-k-k-k-k for what seemed like hours. He was pally with a Welshman on the staff who taught us Classical Mythology. I've never, ever, in my chuffing life been so ****ing bored. They would have spoilt another couple, I can tell you. Some years later I had an OU lecturer who commenced the Geology course with the words, "Now I have to teach you something called Plate Tectonics. I will teach it, as best as I can, but I must inform you now that the theory is nonsense and within the next ten years will be totally discredited." Bill What amazes me is continental drift in general wasn't a mainstream theory until the 20th century The world looks like a giant jigsaw FFS any child can see that ;) Oh and you would have thought that some enterprising ancient Greek would have discovered that blood circulates centuries before Harvey in 1628. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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Graham. wrote:
What amazes me is continental drift in general wasn't a mainstream theory until the 20th century The world looks like a giant jigsaw FFS any child can see that ;) "Sir, why do Africa and America look as if they were once joined?" "Shut up and get back to your pounds shillings and pence addition!" Oh and you would have thought that some enterprising ancient Greek would have discovered that blood circulates centuries before Harvey in 1628. Everything necessary for photography was available in Shakespeare's time. Bill |
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On 13/04/2011 17:18, wrote:
You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:27:36 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote: On 13/04/2011 17:18, wrote: You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E Thanks for that better link, Mark. I'm afraid David's link just went to a (blank) page that was redirected back to itself. :-( -- Regards JB Good |
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:25:56 +0100, Johny B Good wrote:
You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)... http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/ Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E Thanks for that better link, Mark. I'm afraid David's link just went to a (blank) page that was redirected back to itself. :-( ITV disappearing up its own arse? There's a novelty... |
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On Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 12:27:36h +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he- Except BBC Look East reporter Clive Lewis did not understand the difference between a transmitter and a mast, and proceeded to misinform viewers as to the nature of a transmitter. Now you may say, is it important to distinguish between a transmitter and a mast? Well if such a difference is not important, why even bother doing the on site report at all? It only show once again, how standards of reporting and general education and intelligence at the BBC have declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds took over the management of the BBC. |
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J G Miller wrote:
It only show once again, how standards of reporting and general education and intelligence at the BBC have declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds took over the management of the BBC. You are Alan Towers AICMFP ! -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
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Mark Carver wrote:
J G Miller wrote: It only show once again, how standards of reporting and general education and intelligence at the BBC have declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds took over the management of the BBC. You are Alan Towers AICMFP ! No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is completely dead. Bill |
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Bill Wright wrote:
Mark Carver wrote: J G Miller wrote: It only show once again, how standards of reporting and general education and intelligence at the BBC have declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds took over the management of the BBC. You are Alan Towers AICMFP ! No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is completely dead. Oh dear, so he is, I'd missed that news:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. www.paras.org.uk |
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Mark Carver wrote:
No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is completely dead. Oh dear, so he is, I'd missed that news:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers Oh! It seems Mr Miller has passed away as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_G_Miller Bill |
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:44:12 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote: Mark Carver wrote: No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is completely dead. Oh dear, so he is, I'd missed that news:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers Oh! It seems Mr Miller has passed away as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_G_Miller Or he hasn't been born yet. -- Peter Duncanson (in uk.tech.digital-tv) |
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