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Max headroom is helping C4! (October 2007)

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MA
Markymark
Tumble Tower posted:

Well actually, according to this, Plympton covers quite a big area for a relay.


That map is unbelievably optimistic, that's more like the coverage of Plymouth Sound FM from the same site. I lived in Plymouth for three years, Plympton is screened off from a large part of the town, but that same portion is LOS to Caradon.

What's your personal experience of reception conditions from Plympton then ?
TT
Tumble Tower
StuartPlymouth posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
Well actually, according to this, Plympton covers quite a big area for a relay.

I think I'll stick with Caradon Hill for the time being. It looks as though most from the Plympton relay is outside the range of my Group A aerial, whereas after 30th July 2009 all six muxes from Caradon Hill will be within range, and they are increasing to 18 times its current power!

I only watch freeview when I am recording 2 things simultaneously on Sky+ anyway.

You'd need a Group C/D aerial to get the six DTT muxes, plus analogue BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 and Channel 4 from Plympton. To get analogue Five from Plympton as well, you'd want a Group E aerial.

So it's not as simple as turning your existing group A aerial around to face Plympton, you'll need a different aerial altogether.
TT
Tumble Tower
Markymark posted:
Tumble Tower posted:

Well actually, according to this, Plympton covers quite a big area for a relay.


That map is unbelievably optimistic, that's more like the coverage of Plymouth Sound FM from the same site. I lived in Plymouth for three years, Plympton is screened off from a large part of the town, but that same portion is LOS to Caradon.

What's your personal experience of reception conditions from Plympton then ?

I have no experience of picking up from Plympton as I live in Bath! I'm just going by the map I saw on the website UK Free TV.

Two and a half years ago, I stayed for four nights at a guest house in Plymouth just around the corner from Plymouth mainline railway station, close to North Cross. I couldn't get analogue Five on the TV in my room there. That puzzled me as analogue Five is available on Plympton. I wondered whether I was picking up from Caradon Hill or Plympton, but had no way of telling. I could perhaps have found out the UHF frequencies the four analogue channels were tuned to, but since the TV wasn't mine, I didn't want to go fiddling around to find out.
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
I can tell you with absolute certainty that that coverage map is a load of old cobblers and optimistic beyond all measure.

I suspect it could be the Plymouth Sound FM radio coverage map, rather than the television one, but can't be certain.

I was at Plympton, together with Caradon and Huntshaw last Monday and know a little bit about what I am talking about.
MA
Markymark
Tumble Tower posted:

Two and a half years ago, I stayed for four nights at a guest house in Plymouth just around the corner from Plymouth mainline railway station, close to North Cross. I couldn't get analogue Five on the TV in my room there. That puzzled me as analogue Five is available on Plympton.


Well, there you are, evidence that Plympton UHF does not cover the whole city.
Hence the reason for the North Road (and Weston Mill) relays.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/plymouth-weston-mill.php

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/plymouth-north-road.php

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/plympton.php

24 days later

:-(
A former member
Whitehaven in Cumbria is now first place in the UK to turn off all the analogue signal completely and switch to digital TV.

so it must alright,
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
623058 posted:
Whitehaven in Cumbria is now first place in the UK to turn off all the analogue signal completely and switch to digital TV.

so it must alright,

...with the exception of those who rotated their aerials to pick up one of the other (terrestrial) transmitters, which I'm told some have been doing. Though it's fair to say most of Copeland is now fully digital.

20 days later

:-(
A former member
Max head room is now ( looking very old) is help viewer of C4 move of to digital

any clips?
LL
Larry the Loafer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/29/channel4.advertising

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2007/11/28/MaxHeadroom460.jpg

That's more scary then the Max Headroom Pirate!

Trailer
PT
Put The Telly On
Another job there for Ewen MacIntosh.
:-(
A former member
NO it not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycVTXtm0U0&feature=related
LL
Larry the Loafer
623058 posted:


http://www.boingboing.net/images/headroompirate.jpg

The video is creepier but as an image, the pirate Max just looks like a rip-off Max, whereas the elderly Max just looks... strange.

EDIT: Anyone recognise this?

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