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Yes we had two 17 ele group b pointing at Hannington when the regional news
was not the only differences in itv. sigh, bring back them days.

Brian

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Come 1982, and Channel 4 on UHF Ch 66, there were loads of Group B (and
probably ex London Grp As !) in use. In fact, the IBA deliberately placed
Hannington on 7 months worth of trade tests on C4, to highlight the
problem ahead of the channel's launch.

In the West London, it was not that unusual for homes with Crystal Palace
Group A aerials also have a second aerial for Hannington, so they could
get an alternative ITV region (Southern, on Ch42) and (as a bonus) BBC
South (Ch 39). Almost certainly, these would be Group B (as there was no
need for Channel 4, on Ch66).



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Ian

We were about to embark at Dover, when lid (Mark
Carver) came up to me and whispered:

Actually Hannington has always been classed as Group E, ever since
it opened,

True, as CH66 was allocated for IBA2 from 1960mumble, it was indeed Group
E officially, but for practical purposes it was Group B from 1970 to
1982.

I even have a 1969 cutting from the Basingstoke Gazette
that states that in form of a letter from the BBC, that was written
in response to an article a week earlier, quoting a local dealer
that had said 'turning round existing (Group A) London aerials will
be fine'.

I don't suppose you can either scan and mail that to my Reply-To or can
fax it to me - fax number available by email on request.

Alternatively, I could meet you at the Library to photocopy it?

Come 1982, and Channel 4 on UHF Ch 66, there were loads of Group B
(and probably ex London Grp As !) in use. In fact, the IBA
deliberately placed Hannington on 7 months worth of trade tests on
C4, to highlight the problem ahead of the channel's launch.

I was living on the Old Dean at Camberley at the time, and because of our
elevation and the direction of the Group A CP aerial, we used to get
crystal clear Southern, and BBC1 South as well. Channel 4 from Hannington,
not an option on the main TV, but our portables in bedrooms could always
get Hannington better than CP.

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On 26/08/2011 14:45, Paul Cummins wrote:
We were about to embark at Dover, when lid (Mark

I even have a 1969 cutting from the Basingstoke Gazette
that states that in form of a letter from the BBC, that was written
in response to an article a week earlier, quoting a local dealer
that had said 'turning round existing (Group A) London aerials will
be fine'.

I don't suppose you can either scan and mail that to my Reply-To or can
fax it to me - fax number available by email on request.

I'll dig it out over the weekend, and stick it on my webspace for all to
see.

Alternatively, I could meet you at the Library to photocopy it?

Ha, Library ? They've re-branded it "The Basingstoke Discovery Centre"
don't you know !

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Mark
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www.paras.org.uk

On 26/08/2011 14:59, Mark Carver wrote:

I don't suppose you can either scan and mail that to my Reply-To or can
fax it to me - fax number available by email on request.

I'll dig it out over the weekend, and stick it on my webspace for all to
see.

Through the miracle of remote ftp access to my Network drive:-

Ta-da !

http://www.markyboy.net/misc/hann.jpg

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Mark
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www.paras.org.uk

We were about to embark at Dover, when lid (Mark
Carver) came up to me and whispered:

Alternatively, I could meet you at the Library to photocopy it?

Ha, Library ? They've re-branded it "The Basingstoke Discovery
Centre" don't you know !

Not at Chineham, they haven't. Anyway I like the new airy Basingstoke
central "facility" - at least you can eat and drink while reading now.

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Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

We were about to embark at Dover, when lid (Mark
Carver) came up to me and whispered:

Through the miracle of remote ftp access to my Network drive:-

Ta-da !

Grazie...

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Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:59:57 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

On 26/08/2011 14:45, Paul Cummins wrote:
We were about to embark at Dover, when lid (Mark

I even have a 1969 cutting from the Basingstoke Gazette
that states that in form of a letter from the BBC, that was written
in response to an article a week earlier, quoting a local dealer
that had said 'turning round existing (Group A) London aerials will
be fine'.

I don't suppose you can either scan and mail that to my Reply-To or can
fax it to me - fax number available by email on request.

I'll dig it out over the weekend, and stick it on my webspace for all to
see.

Alternatively, I could meet you at the Library to photocopy it?

Ha, Library ? They've re-branded it "The Basingstoke Discovery Centre"
don't you know !


Surely that's all part of the branding strategy in keeping with
Basingstoke's status as "Science Wonder City of the South"... isn't it?

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Regards JB Good

On Friday, August 26th, 2011 at 14:31:55h +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Yes we had two 17 ele group b pointing at Hannington when the regional
news was not the only differences in itv. sigh, bring back them days.

You can thank Gerry Robinson, Charles Allen, and Michael Green for that.

And do not forget that Michael Green used to be the boss of coalition
government of national salvation Prime Minister Cameron, whom Cameron
has rigorously defended.

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An aerial rigger friend, who has been in the trade for over 30 years,
reckons that since DSO from Mendip his business has had the kiss of death on
it, the only aerial work he seems to get now is for problems with the
remaining low power muxs, but even they'll be no more in a few months' time.

There's an aerial which has been in a sorry state on neighbouring property
for the best part of 12 months, I suggested to him was possible job and to
give them a knock when he was passing, apparently the telly works OK
(possibly receiving reception from a line of sight vertically polarised
relay) so why spend any money until it falls off completely :-)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11815200/aerial2.jpg

In article ,
Ian Jackson wrote:
In the West London, it was not that unusual for homes with Crystal
Palace Group A aerials also have a second aerial for Hannington, so they
could get an alternative ITV region (Southern, on Ch42) and (as a bonus)
BBC South (Ch 39). Almost certainly, these would be Group B (as there
was no need for Channel 4, on Ch66).

Not just West London. I had one here in the Sauf.

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