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Ian Jackson wrote:

Half a colon?

My mate Dave's only got a semi-colon. He's doing all right.

Bill

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:11:02 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Anyway, I'm not surprised they turned analogue off if that's how snowy
it was.

Actually, it was a fairly good signal, unless you happened to be using
an indoor aerial 30 miles from the transmitter - like that ****
signal.

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"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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Channel 5 went off some time after midnight

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Interesting that Channel 5 was the last analogue service to close down in N
Ireland (and the UK)

Same thing happened in mainland GB with Burnhope Channel 5 being last to go.

Last in.... Last out !

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Regards
Colin

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:24:41 -0000, "cmwb" wrote:

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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Channel 5 went off some time after midnight

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Interesting that Channel 5 was the last analogue service to close down in N
Ireland (and the UK)

A possible reason for that in my part of Northern Ireland is that all
the analogue and digital services were transmitted from the Divis mast
except for Channel 5 which came from the nearby but separate Black
Mountain mast. Having Black Mountain still transmitting would not have
prevented the start of the necessary engineering activities at Divis.

Same thing happened in mainland GB with Burnhope Channel 5 being last to go.

Last in.... Last out !

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:06:17 +0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:24:41 -0000, "cmwb" wrote:

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
. ..


Channel 5 went off some time after midnight

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Interesting that Channel 5 was the last analogue service to close down in N
Ireland (and the UK)

A possible reason for that in my part of Northern Ireland is that all
the analogue and digital services were transmitted from the Divis mast

I should have mentioned that the Divis transmitting station has two
masts. The second one is new and is for the high power digital
transmissions.

except for Channel 5 which came from the nearby but separate Black
Mountain mast. Having Black Mountain still transmitting would not have
prevented the start of the necessary engineering activities at Divis.

Same thing happened in mainland GB with Burnhope Channel 5 being last to go.

Last in.... Last out !

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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cmwb wrote:
Interesting that Channel 5 was the last analogue service to close
down in N Ireland (and the UK)

Same thing happened in mainland GB with Burnhope Channel 5 being last
to go.

Last in.... Last out !

It was the same in London, C5 Croydon, went after the other four had
gone at Crystal P. However even where it was co sited with the other
four, it was still the last to go.

Oxford and Hannington for example.

As Peter says it's probably connected to the fact it didn't need to
clear off to make way for the new DTT services. At Oxford and
Hannington, and many other sites, it still operated from its own
dedicated aerial stack, and used frequencies not being re used post DSO.