Bye bye Anna Log

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.


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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

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

"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.

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.


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Mark
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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.

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:18:39 +0100,
wrote:

You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)...
http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/

There's what appears to be an old Microvitec monitor from the BBC Micro
era in that video. I wonder if it still works (mine does!).

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

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/

UnsteadyKen wrote:

I wasn't shure

Have you been on the pop again Unsteady Ken?

Bill

"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%

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.

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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/