All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Aerialman: I am waiting for Ofcom to change their publications.
Digital UK won't allow me to use data from their site because they claim copyright.
Sorry... I can't afford the legal fees!
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Dave Hagen: try My Freeview | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?
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Colin Swan: Just for amusement, just Google Lord Reith.
"His name is still a byword for high-minded broadcasting. But Lord Reith was an adulterer and family tyrant who was so profligate he left just £75 in his will. Who says so? His own daughter...
The fact that he ended his life practically destitute is a testament to his overweening extravagance and ostentation".
Lord Reith: The Hypocrite who built the BBC | Mail Online
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MikeB: It's hard to make moral value judgements about times long-past. For example, it's useful to remember that the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror "quite liked" facism at the time.
Don't damn the Daily Mail for its fascist flirtation 80 years ago | Media | theguardian.com is a good source.
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MikeB: Re: the leadership issue...
"The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting
themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
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From Winter Hill to Emley Moor transmitting station and Pontop Pike and then there is Mendip but not Mendip and Sutton Coldfield and Martlesham and Hope Halifax? What of Connecting it all up?
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michael: if there is no advanced notice posted then the work is an unscheduled situation. Meaning something broke beyond the ability of the system to be fixed automatically and/or remotely.
If I could afford DTG full membership I could have full details of planned work... But it's far too expensive...
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michael: I've answered this point elsewhere, but I will reiterate it.
There are two types of "engineering work". The first is planned months in advance and are pre-notified. If you have £10k a year you can even get them sent to you in detail, by email before they happen. All you need is Joining the DTG
The second type of work is "faults". All of the transmitters have redundant systems - multiple power supplies, transmission equipment and so forth. Most have the ability to take a signal from Intelsat 907 27.5°W if they need to.
However, sometimes the transmitter won't be able to switch to an automatic (or sometimes remote activated) backup.
When this happens the services will come off air.
When this happens they appear on the R+T Investigation site and - eventually - on here.
These are "genuine faults". I did used to call them faults, but as the pre-notified work also appear in the list, I was don't use the word "fault".
The smaller a transmitter is, and the remoteness of it from the network, the longer a fault will take to sort out. Arqiva have offices in Crawley and London ... there isn't anyone based in your part of the world - as might have happened in the distant past - waiting for things to go wrong, as, generally speaking, they don't.
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Wednesday 19 February 2014 2:53PM
Colin Swan: For the record, I know who UCB are and have always found their PR people to be perfectly pleasant.
And whilst UCB do not providing anything that I would be personally be interested in, I have always included them on UK Free TV.