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Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.UK Free TV fix 3: fix everything else...
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Thursday 3 August 2023 8:51AM
Shoreham-by-sea
Thursday 3 August 2023 8:51AM
Shoreham-by-sea
Chris.SE: I will look into that. I suspect what when I wrote the auto-link thing I didn't consider that mast would be use for both radio and TV as this is a new thing! AM radio didn't need line of sight whereas higher frequency DAB does.
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Madingley (Cambridge) (Cambridgeshire, England) Freeview Light
Thursday 3 August 2023 8:55AM
Shoreham-by-sea
Thursday 3 August 2023 8:55AM
Shoreham-by-sea
Chris.SE: Another thing to look at then... It might have to wait a short while as I've got another spine operation on Saturday.
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Chris.SE: Thanks. They've had a Freeview HD TV in the hospital, so perhaps I can check out the allocations whilst I'm waiting!
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Nicholas Anderson: Actually, I worked on the original Ipswich BTTV system, taking over to that NAB Las Vegas conference back in 1997.
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Chris.SE: Sorry about the spam, I don't know what's up with Askimet at the moment...
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I recall Lord Grade taking about "capture" once at a public meeting. It was basically away of saying "you can ignore what you want to" as it was so simple for people to enter into letter writing or emailing campaigns without being reflective of the public at a whole.
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The server is having massive issues because it being hammered by a very unsuccessful spam system. I have made a few changes to try and deal with it but I'm remake the server but I might have to disable sign-up emails.
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Thursday 3 August 2023 8:48AM
Shoreham-by-sea
Chris.SE: That should be fixed now.