All posts by Briantist
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Chris Bell: why not save your money and use Freesat? It is designed for people in your situation.
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Chris Bell: for the money you would be spending in something that may or may not work you could get a dish with a quad lnb and a few basic freesat HD boxes.
If you must have the UKtv channels a basic sky subscription would still come in cheaper.
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Kevin Griffin: PICK TV is used as a "barker" channel by BSkyB to provide a "shop window" onto their subscription services.
To this end, it shows "old" shows which have been provided to Sky subscribers in the past.
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Jonathan: I was a New Labour bill that gives you the right, Section 134 of the Communications Act 2003 sets out the principle "that no person should unreasonably be denied access to an electronic communications network or to electronic communications services."
See Council aerial ban challenged | News headlines | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice and http://www.ofcom.org.uk/r….pdf and also Legislation.gov.uk .
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steve: Just to add to Dave Lindsay's excellent description, it is my understanding that there were ZERO homes taken off air in London by the 4G tests.
The signal from Crystal Palace is just too strong - this means that homes were not using boosters.
The results from York and Brighton are more interesting, because in both of these places the Freeview signals before switchover were very low.
This meant that people were using MRD (Margin Raising Devices) aka Masthead Amplifiers.
It's the Masthead amplifiers that cause the 4G signal to overload the Freeview.
However, this has still been limited mainly to HIMO (Houses in Multiple Occupancy) where many homes share the same aerial.
This will boost the number of homes affected.
So, to answer the question about Emley Moor, the answer is almost 100% "no", because:
1) The signal is very high from the mast, almost all the way to the radio horizon.
2) The North of England has very few HIMO compared to somewhere like Brighton.
3) MRDs are less common because the Freeview signals were OK before switchover.
4) People who are in fringe signal areas for Emley Moor can and do use other transmitters (Pontop Pike in the north, Waltham to the south).
But it must be said again, you can't say be Freeview Mast where the problems will be it depends on the use of MRDs.
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steve: "4g operators said in the application for the frequencies that only 90,000 households out of the whole country would be affected".
Not true. Ofcom said the figures would be
Of the 16.3 million UK homes with a standard (unamplified, unshared) Freeview reception, 110,000 (0.67%) would be effected.
Of the 5.2 million homes using communal aerials systems, 550,000 (10.6%) will have problems.
Of the 5.6 million homes using amplified Freeview reception, 100,000 (1.8%) will experience problems.
Ofcom moves to protect Freeview interference from 4G mobile devices | 4G-at-800 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
"Now it seems no one knows till it is switched on how many it will effect, so how could they say only a very few people (90,000 housolds) will be affected in there licence submission"
Because they ran FOUR tests - London (South East and West), Brighton and Hove and York Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one in 300 chance | 4G-at-800 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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steve: Just to clarify, I mean that the 4G bids were done on the basis of the Ofcom figures.
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Tuesday 11 June 2013 4:18PM
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