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Annette Curtain

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Chick is being rather humble & modest here


He's actually part of the technical team that makes sure TV is broadcast correctly from Crystal Palace and other sites


So the loss of analogue is very personal to him ( I reckon he's even got pet names for each transmitter )


And I believe he's even been up to the top of the arial on many occasion


Nette;-)




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( oh and if your TV goes on the blink-it's his fault )

Chick

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London art show marks end of analogue TV

An Arqiva analogue transmitter from Sudbury forms the centrepiece of a display by Simon Denny.

Arqiva is supporting a major exhibition entitled Remote Control organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London this spring, which coincides with the digital switchover in London. The exhibition marks the end of analogue TV broadcasting, representing a milestone in the evolution of the medium. A high-power analogue transmitter, recently decommissioned from our Sudbury site in Suffolk, gets a 10-week reprieve before continuing on its journey of environmentally safe disposal.


Remote Control surveys the enormous impact that television has had upon contemporary culture and looks at how the next generation is responding to digital convergence. The exhibition includes many important works that reveal the power and influence of television broadcasting on politics and society.


Matt Williams, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, said: ?The physicality of the vintage TV transmitter from Arqiva impressed me a great deal and the idea of the signal being pushed through a series of valves. This is beautifully engineered, large and solid equipment that is normally never seen and yet has delivered the great televised events of our recent history to a mass audience.?


The area which includes the transmission equipment is designed by Berlin-based artist Simon Denny and also features works made for TV by artists such as David Hall, Richard Serra and Ant Farm (an American artist collective).




Peter Heslop, Director of Digital Switch Over at Arqiva, adds: ?For several years now our focus in Arqiva has been on designing and installing the new digital network, so it?s very pleasing to see the spotlight on the old analogue kit that has served us so well for the last few decades. There is little or no practical use for the old transmitters so it?s good that at least one of them will take on a final public role before joining the others in the recycling process.?


The transmitter is from a PYE klystron-based installation which has transmitted Channel 4 at Sudbury since 1982. The Remote Control exhibition takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London between 3 April and 10 June. The ICA is in The Mall, just down from Admiralty Arch. Admission is free.

PeckhamRose

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Wow! Well for a Southwark Circle member I just tried to retune her little television and even after retuning, with her internal little aerial attached to the 8 yr old digibox, we couldn't locate ITV3 C4 or C5!


Fortunately she has Virgin in the other rooms so she'll survive.


Elsewhere on this forum Chick posted up some absolutely wonderful photos from the top of the towers!

ianr

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>Wow! Well for a Southwark Circle member I just tried to retune her little

>television and even after retuning, with her internal little aerial attached

> to the 8 yr old digibox, we couldn't locate ITV3 C4 or C5!


If it is an aerial/reception problem, you should find that _all_ of the channels contained within a multiplex are missing. You can see the new Crystal Palace multiplexes listed here. If that's her problem, it looks as if her set's not been able to tune to two of them, PSB2 and COM4. With an indoor aerial, it's probably worth the trouble of having several goes, with the aerial in slightly different positions. Once the TV or freeview box has found them, it will at least know about and remember them.


If that's not the problem, I did find, on one freeview box (Medion or Tevion, I think), that a few channels had been inserted at numbers in the 1000+ channel list number range, rather than in the one starting at 1. Once I'd found them, I moved them to their usual places in the sequence.

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