Comments by "Chris Cain" (@buffplums) on "The TV Aerials In This Town Face The Wrong Way - The Reason Is Genius!" video.

  1. Really good video chap, nice to see someone who knows their subject. Intake it you are either a broadcast engineer or have a practical interest in radio? Where I lived on the Wirral (Pensby) we used to rely on Winter Hill until they built the Storeton repeater in the 70s sometime, however I seem to remember that it was t there to serve our area so much so we stayed on Winter Hill which I think, back in the day put out something in the order of 100kW. WH being a primary radiator was horizontally polarised and Storeton being a repeater was vertical. Where we were we could also see Moel Y Parc in North Wales (which incidentally had R6, the HAM VHF repeater channel) which used to broadcast HTV a so we had a second antenna facing that and we fitted an antenna changeover switch (yeah, cheap and nasty and very lossy but the signals were strong enough, what’s a little bit of grain) so we could have the benefit of receiving both Granada and HTV a as well as BBC North West and BBC Cymru. What was good with the Granada / HTV arrangement was because HTV used to transmit English and Welsh news (BBC generally did most of its regional programming in Welsh) often the late film was often repeated in HTV an hour behind Granada so if there was something good on we would watch the whole film on Granada and then watch the last half again on HTV if it was good. Can remember watching the Italian Job once in this fashion…. Hahah thanks for the memories… hopefully I got all of my facts right, it’s been 40 odd years since I left the Wirral 😂
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