Multiplex A from Winter Hill to Cheshire

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up here
over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere but the
quality is low on these channels with picture and sound breaking up. It's
showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm assuming that it's
transmission or something en-route (work on Barton Bridge?). Is the problem
general or is it just me that's lucky?

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:13:08 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up
here over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere but
the quality is low on these channels with picture and sound breaking up.
It's showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm assuming that
it's transmission or something en-route (work on Barton Bridge?). Is the
problem general or is it just me that's lucky?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/today.shtml

I'm sure there was something about winter hill recently

In ,
John Cartmell wrote:

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up
here over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere but
the quality is low on these channels with picture and sound breaking up.
It's showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm assuming that
it's transmission or something en-route (work on Barton Bridge?). Is the
problem general or is it just me that's lucky?

Arqiva report no known transmission issues currently. Channel 68 is
apparently more prone to localised reception issues (reflected signals etc)
so could well be Barton Bridge work that's to blame. Can you check signal
strength, is it low or varying?

I'm heading up to Cheshire very shortly for the w/end so will take a closer
look at Mux A then.
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:13:08 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up
here over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere but
the quality is low on these channels with picture and sound breaking up.
It's showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm assuming that
it's transmission or something en-route (work on Barton Bridge?). Is the
problem general or is it just me that's lucky?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/today.shtml

I'm sure there was something about winter hill recently

Would the BBC be doing work for Five?
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John Cartmell wrote:
Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up here
over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere but the
quality is low on these channels with picture and sound breaking up. It's
showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm assuming that it's
transmission or something en-route (work on Barton Bridge?). Is the problem
general or is it just me that's lucky?

Apologies.
It was much more local than I expected - being intermittent in one (ie it's
now working OK) and mains interference with the aerial lead in the other.

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:57:31 +0000, David wrote:


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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:13:08 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up
here over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere
but the quality is low on these channels with picture and sound
breaking up. It's showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm
assuming that it's transmission or something en-route (work on Barton
Bridge?). Is the problem general or is it just me that's lucky?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/today.shtml

I'm sure there was something about winter hill recently

Would the BBC be doing work for Five?

No, but one could suppose that if work is being done on the digital muxes
on winter hill then it may effect more than one mux.

Oh and assuming your reply was a sarcastic pompous one, then the BBC don't
do work on any transmitters.

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:57:31 +0000, David wrote:


"steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:13:08 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

Multiplex A - or at least Channel 5, QVC, & abc1 - has been playing up
here over the last few days. I'm getting a perfect picture elsewhere
but the quality is low on these channels with picture and sound
breaking up. It's showing on two STBs using two aerial systems so I'm
assuming that it's transmission or something en-route (work on Barton
Bridge?). Is the problem general or is it just me that's lucky?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/today.shtml

I'm sure there was something about winter hill recently

Would the BBC be doing work for Five?

No, but one could suppose that if work is being done on the digital muxes
on winter hill then it may effect more than one mux.

Oh and assuming your reply was a sarcastic pompous one, then the BBC don't
do work on any transmitters.


Who does the work ?

tom pepper wrote:


Oh and assuming your reply was a sarcastic pompous one, then the BBC don't
do work on any transmitters.



Who does the work ?

On BBC transmissions, Muxes 1 and B, and Freeview Muxes C and D it's National
Grid Wireless, who were recently bought from Crown Castle (by National Grid),
who were the company that bought from the BBC their transmission dept when it
was privatised 10 years ago.

For all other transmissions, ITV, C4, C5, and DTT Muxes 2 and A it's Arqiva,
the name used by the company who bought from NTL, their broadcast transmission
section, that was originally (15 years ago) the IBA's engineering dept, until
being sold to NTL (who were called CableTel but soon adopted the NTL name for
the whole company that the IBA had originally invented for their privatised Tx
dept.)

NWG and Arqiva own 50% each of the 1154 TV transmitter sites in the UK, they
have each other's kit at each site on a Landlord/Tenant basis.

Confused ?

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