All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
STEVE H.: The box will, but you stand almost no change of getting UK channels there.
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tony: Please see the Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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tracy reynolds: This usually indicates that water is getting into the aerial cable, so you should probably have the cable replaced.
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Peter D: Honestly, it would have not made an ideal base. You simply don't need the space you did in the 1980s to make local TV. What fitted into a room them you can get as a mobile phone app today.
You can run, and given the finances of local TV, they will be running, these services from a normal office. There is low power lighting, so no need for masses of coolig plant. Cameras are light and tiny. You rub an "OB" using standard technology.
A "lagacy" studio is a financial burden that would stop local TV beforeit even started.
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I remeber asking specifically about "Studio 5" and I was told that it most certainly was not "structurally sound".
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abbey: Yes, the connection is the same and the services use the same satellites.
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Daniel: Quite a lot of the population in the 29.2% is in places that local TV just won't cover, in particular where the population density is very low.
The problems for Coventry, Leicester and Peterborough (and others) is not a transmitter site, but that people in these places do not share a common transmitter. The local TV service has to be an add-on to the current Freeview service, most people won't want to pay £100 to have another aerial installed and a diplexers just to get one extra channel.
Another issue is that the interleaved frequencies occur because they are slotted into the DTT transmitter plan. If you start trying to add in other transmitters, the chances of having an interleaved frequency reduce.
It should also be noted that money is not being thrown at this project, so the assumption that existing masts will be used.
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Joe Pavitt: This might help as well, if you don't wish to use the Nearby API:
class fixIrish
{
public function fixIrish($strNGR="IC404175")
{
$fpLat=0; $fpLong=0;
switch ($strNGR)
{
case "IC404175": $fpLat= 55.00314; $fpLong=-7.36985; break;
case "IC711296": $fpLat= 55.10838; $fpLong=-6.88717; break;
case "IC847376": $fpLat= 55.17809; $fpLong=-6.67175; break;
case "ID163005": $fpLat= 54.83860; $fpLong=-6.19105; break;
case "IC404175": $fpLat= 55.00314; $fpLong=-7.36985; break;
case "ID395037": $fpLat= 54.86141; $fpLong=-5.82868; break;
case "IH233457": $fpLat= 54.35927; $fpLong=-7.64277; break;
case "IH350527": $fpLat= 54.42148; $fpLong=-7.46199; break;
case "IH393947": $fpLat= 54.79844; $fpLong=-7.39014; break;
case "IH891445": $fpLat= 54.34125; $fpLong=-6.63121; break;
case "IJ278727": $fpLat= 54.58622; $fpLong=-6.02435; break;
case "IJ287750": $fpLat= 54.60664; $fpLong=-6.00943; break;
case "IJ317803": $fpLat= 54.65345; $fpLong=-5.96066; break;
case "IJ336829": $fpLat= 54.67629; $fpLong=-5.93005; break;
case "IC397173": $fpLat= 55.00140; $fpLong=-7.38082; break;
case "IC404176": $fpLat= 55.00404; $fpLong=-7.36984; break;
case "IC405176": $fpLat= 55.00403; $fpLong=-7.36828; break;
case "IC437149": $fpLat= 54.97951; $fpLong=-7.31868; break;
case "IC711296": $fpLat= 55.10838; $fpLong=-6.88717; break;
case "IC847376": $fpLat= 55.17809; $fpLong=-6.67175; break;
case "ID008028": $fpLat= 54.86260; $fpLong=-6.43139; break;
case "ID077423": $fpLat= 55.21582; $fpLong=-6.30911; break;
case "ID395037": $fpLat= 54.86141; $fpLong=-5.82868; break;
case "IH232457": $fpLat= 54.35927; $fpLong=-7.64431; break;
case "IH350527": $fpLat= 54.42148; $fpLong=-7.46199; break;
case "IH352529": $fpLat= 54.42326; $fpLong=-7.45889; break;
case "IH798625": $fpLat= 54.50445; $fpLong=-6.76933; break;
case "IH824874": $fpLat= 54.72766; $fpLong=-6.72222; break;
case "IJ055246": $fpLat= 54.15943; $fpLong=-6.38615; break;
case "IJ077238": $fpLat= 54.15179; $fpLong=-6.35277; break;
case "IJ125459": $fpLat= 54.34921; $fpLong=-6.27106; break;
case "IJ154797": $fpLat= 54.65205; $fpLong=-6.21329; break;
case "IJ189176": $fpLat= 54.09365; $fpLong=-6.18388; break;
case "IJ258619": $fpLat= 54.48976; $fpLong=-6.05987; break;
case "IJ262659": $fpLat= 54.52557; $fpLong=-6.05199; break;
case "IJ278727": $fpLat= 54.58622; $fpLong=-6.02435; break;
case "IJ281180": $fpLat= 54.09504; $fpLong=-6.04318; break;
case "IJ287750": $fpLat= 54.60664; $fpLong=-6.00943; break;
case "IJ318734": $fpLat= 54.59148; $fpLong=-5.96221; break;
case "IJ326744": $fpLat= 54.60025; $fpLong=-5.94939; break;
case "IJ335738": $fpLat= 54.59463; $fpLong=-5.93574; break;
case "IJ336829": $fpLat= 54.67629; $fpLong=-5.93005; break;
case "IJ337726": $fpLat= 54.58380; $fpLong=-5.93320; break;
case "IJ362302": $fpLat= 54.20249; $fpLong=-5.91396; break;
case "IJ372675": $fpLat= 54.53708; $fpLong=-5.88148; break;
case "IJ390773": $fpLat= 54.62457; $fpLong=-5.84906; break;
case "IJ392777": $fpLat= 54.62810; $fpLong=-5.84578; break;
case "IJ435363": $fpLat= 54.25527; $fpLong=-5.79927; break;
case "IJ436364": $fpLat= 54.25614; $fpLong=-5.79769; break;
case "IJ498441": $fpLat= 54.32348; $fpLong=-5.69878; break;
case "IJ500817": $fpLat= 54.66092; $fpLong=-5.67665; break;
// Channel Islands
case "CI581511": $fpLat= 49.4569; $fpLong=-2.57778; break;
case "CI593514": $fpLat= 49.459446; $fpLong=-2.55533; break;
case "CI864798": $fpLat= 49.7144; $fpLong=-2.20528; break;
case "CI868805": $fpLat= 49.723203; $fpLong=-2.199393; break;
case "CI908280": $fpLat= 49.2517; $fpLong=-2.13111; break;
case "CI923249": $fpLat= 49.234035; $fpLong=-2.092155; break;
case "CI925273": $fpLat= 49.247663; $fpLong=-2.104488; break;
}
return array($fpLat, $fpLong);
}
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Wednesday 10 August 2011 11:26PM
jahlada: If you have a communial aerial system, it will be effected by power outages, otherwise please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .