Re: Bit off topic ...


"Ron(UK)" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


When analogue is switched off the power of the digital transmitters will
increase - you can't do this at the moment due to co-channel
interference.
Then the same size aerial should suffice. Most of the population can
already get FreeView with their exisiting aerial - if they had good
analogue reception.


Lets hope so because at the moment although I get a great analogue
picture, freeview is less than satisfactory, I`m not that far from Winter
Hill.

Ron(UK)

We can almost 'see' Sandy Heath from here, and the digital signals are
garbage. Also, in many parts of the country, the multiplexes are split from
one end of band IV to the other end of band V, and transmitters are often
not co-sited with their analogue counterparts, which virtually guarantees
that a special CAI approved wideband 'digital' aerial will be required
either to receive digital at all, or to suplement analogue reception.
Considering how cleverly conceived and executed the UHF analogue channel
allocation system was, I think that the digital mish-mash that we now have
is a travesty. I too have read that transmitter powers will go up when the
analogue goes off, but they've already been jacked up once to try to
overcome the shortcomings of the transmission system ( which it was never
going to suffer from in the first place as I recall ... ) and I don't trust
that once someone else has got their hands on the spectrum space, they will
allow much further increases as part of the deal they agree for buying it.
When the RA was in charge, that may well have been the case, but now it is
Ofcom, which is really just a government puppet department, I suspect that
the situation may turn out to be rather different. We have already seen some
pretty far reaching changes to amateur radio licensing, introduced by Ofcom,
which are completely financially and commercially motivated.

Arfa


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