Waltham in Rotherham

I'm pleased to report that the Kimberworth area of Rotherham can now
receive excellent DTT from Waltham. At a location on Church Street today
it was a better signal than any alternative. I've just had a "You won't
believe this!" phone call from one of my many engineers.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:

I'm pleased to report that the Kimberworth area of Rotherham can now
receive excellent DTT from Waltham. At a location on Church Street today
it was a better signal than any alternative. I've just had a "You won't
believe this!" phone call from one of my many engineers.

Not bad, still not got round to fitting an attenuator to mine to knock
out Belmont and Sutton (bought one ready) a quick fiddle with Mr Jive's
terrain plotter shows Wwaltham-Kimberworth is only bothering Mr Fresnel
about the same as my Belmont-Leicester signal, further playing suggests
Gawthorpe should pick it up even better, though closer signals would
probably exist.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:03:20 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

I'm pleased to report that the Kimberworth area of Rotherham can now
receive excellent DTT from Waltham. At a location on Church Street today
it was a better signal than any alternative. I've just had a "You won't
believe this!" phone call from one of my many engineers.

Retuned my TV, in Leicester, yesterday when I realised that the local
news was coming from somewhere much further north than Waltham, where
it should have been coming from. (Didn't leave it on long enough to
find out which region I was receiving, sorry. Sony must have received
some complaints as well, as a new firmware has just been released for
the set.)

Andy Burns wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

I'm pleased to report that the Kimberworth area of Rotherham can now
receive excellent DTT from Waltham. At a location on Church Street today
it was a better signal than any alternative. I've just had a "You won't
believe this!" phone call from one of my many engineers.

Not bad, still not got round to fitting an attenuator to mine to knock
out Belmont and Sutton (bought one ready) a quick fiddle with Mr Jive's
terrain plotter shows Wwaltham-Kimberworth is only bothering Mr Fresnel
about the same as my Belmont-Leicester signal,
Note this is Kimberworth, not Kimberworth Park. I did a terrain plot
from the Library on Church St and it came out obstructed, to my surprise.

Bill

Peter Johnson wrote:

Retuned my TV, in Leicester, yesterday when I realised that the local
news was coming from somewhere much further north than Waltham, where
it should have been coming from.

It'll be Belmont, which from Leicester is more or less straight on from
Waltham and keep going and going, I get the same, thankfully my TV
decides to ue the Waltham signal rather than the Belmont on by default

Bill Wright wrote:

Note this is Kimberworth, not Kimberworth Park. I did a terrain plot
from the Library on Church St and it came out obstructed, to my surprise.

I picked the first S61 postcode that came to hand which was a Winterhill
School on Little Common lane, I don't know the area at all, so not sure
if that't the right or wrong Kimberworth, but Waltham from there didn't
seem any more obscured than Belmont is from here, which I know works.

Andy Burns wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

Note this is Kimberworth, not Kimberworth Park. I did a terrain plot
from the Library on Church St and it came out obstructed, to my surprise.

I picked the first S61 postcode that came to hand which was a Winterhill
School on Little Common lane, I don't know the area at all, so not sure
if that't the right or wrong Kimberworth, but Waltham from there didn't
seem any more obscured than Belmont is from here, which I know works.


Ah. The school is much further up the hill. Incidentally in the days of
Rotherham's old cable system there was an aerial near there for
reception of Central on ch61. Here it is:

http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/aerialp...ient/026.shtml

Bill

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:36:53 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Ah. The school is much further up the hill. Incidentally in the days of
Rotherham's old cable system there was an aerial near there for
reception of Central on ch61. Here it is:

http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/aerialp...ient/026.shtml

Bill

There's a set up identical to that still standing in Bulwell, Nottm.
Pointing at Waltham too, with the remnants of a cabinet at the bottom, must
have been a Rediffusion thing.
It's not visible on Google, but you can see the shadow of the pole.
http://g.co/maps/u67ds
I went past last week & it's still standing.