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If they were to put it out on Moel-y-parc and The Wrekin as well they'd leave virtually no gap unfilled
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I'm surprised the log-periodic aerial doesn't get a mention in the article at the top of this. It's gain may not be the highest, but it's genuinely wideband without peaks, troughs or curves and it presents a greatly reduced target for high winds and jackdaw conventions. Also my installer finds them pretty good directionality-wise since we get good signals from Wrekin and Winter Hill and a massive one from Moel-y-Parc which if one's in England one can, with expert effort, avoid. Log-periodics are gaining ground hereabouts of recent times.
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Barlows tend to fit log-periodic aerials which are genuinely wide-band with no drop-off zones and which don't get knocked about by high winds. I think there may be one multiplex on Wrekin which is less powerful then the rest as I sometimes get the odd pixellation and freezing problem when viewing channels which use it (West Wirral coast, where the alternative is Welsh!)
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Many thanks for that
I suspect most of the installations are by a well-known and respected local firm who clearly know their stuff
Presumably by their very nature log-periodic aerials don't come in low-gain, high-gain etc.? They would appear to have the potential for being quite directional, for hereabouts the strongest signal is nearly always the Welsh one yet they have managed to stop it from disturbing the Wrekin signal which comes in with minimal pixellation, and Winter Hill which comes in full blast save when a stand of big trees locally isn't causing it to pixellate
Bay TV from Liverpool seems to come in loud and clear on Freeview #8 so presumably it's being pumped out of Moel-y-Parc and Storeton in all directions and in appropriate directions only from Winter Hill and Wrekin
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Saturday 13 October 2012 4:11PM
You state above that 1956 saw the inception of this transmitter, but in fact BBC TV was first broadcast just before Christmas in 1949. I remember as a very small boy seeing the first night of it on a 15" HMV set with a figured walnut cabinet and doors at the house of the very wealthy parents of a schoolfriend in Higher Bebington, Wirral, not far from today's Storeton transmitter... we were all spellbound, and went outside to look at the aerial to see if it might be glowing!