TV arerial alignment

I recently knocked up a simple application for the iPhone to assist
in the alignment of terrestial TV aerials in the UK, its available in
the appstore at http://appshopper.com/utilities/itransmitterlocator

"Martin West" wrote in message
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I recently knocked up a simple application for the iPhone to assist
in the alignment of terrestial TV aerials in the UK, its available in
the appstore at http://appshopper.com/utilities/itransmitterlocator

pointless, there are sites you can enter a postcode and get a bearing.
most will point the same direction as their neighbours. some of us
will use a spectrum analyser!

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David Perry wrote:

"Martin West" wrote in message
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I recently knocked up a simple application for the iPhone to assist
in the alignment of terrestial TV aerials in the UK, its available in
the appstore at http://appshopper.com/utilities/itransmitterlocator

pointless, there are sites you can enter a postcode and get a bearing.
most will point the same direction as their neighbours.

and I remember a street in Bolton where all the aerials were pointing at a
visible mast on the hill - some 30° off bearing from Winter Hill which was
not visible.

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Its all part of the what is the point of an I phone project. Its a crappy
phone, nobody can type on a touch screen and most of the restof it seems to
be an mp3 player and a host of gimmicks.

Brian

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"David Perry" wrote in message
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"Martin West" wrote in message
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I recently knocked up a simple application for the iPhone to assist
in the alignment of terrestial TV aerials in the UK, its available in
the appstore at http://appshopper.com/utilities/itransmitterlocator

pointless, there are sites you can enter a postcode and get a bearing.
most will point the same direction as their neighbours. some of us
will use a spectrum analyser!

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Its all part of the what is the point of an I phone project. Its a crappy
phone, nobody can type on a touch screen and most of the restof it seems
to be an mp3 player and a host of gimmicks.

Its OK as a phone, and the on-screen keyboard is far better for texting,
etc. than a T9 numberpad, and it takes up less space than a blackberry style
keyboard.
Its more of a palmtop PC than anything else, although I appreciate than any
touch-screen device is probably worse than useless to the blind.

Z

Hhhmmm, didnt realise I was going to start a flame war :-)

Pointless, well it does have a pointer which points in the direction of the
selected transmitter.

You assume your neighbours have pointed their aerials in the correct
direction and you can see them.

When you are aligning an aerial in the loft do you lift up the tiles to see
where the other transmitters are pointing?

I think the iPhone is great, bad workmen always blame their tools.

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I dare say it is, but so is this (now with full transmitter data,
though I had to abandon the idea of finding the best one because it
hammered the terrain server excessively; I'm considering another
approach instead - this as it stands will be moved from the test
area into the website proper in the not too distant future, Ofcom
copyright and all other things being equal to it) ...
http://www.macfh.co.uk/Test/UKTerrestrialTVTest.html

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:47:29 +0800, "Martin
wrote:

I think the iPhone is great
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