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All posts by Robert Lee

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As I understand it, it's 125kW horizontally polarised plus 125kW vertically polarised, so that it can cover all aerial orientations.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Sunday 19 January 2014 7:22AM

What happened to COM8 - according to information posted above, it should have been on-air last December?

By the way, re. COM7, I live in N Wales with a line-of-sight view of Winter Hill which is 39 miles away and I get perfect reception.

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Having problems with TV background music?
Wednesday 29 October 2014 10:09AM

We have a Panasonic TV with a sound bar. What I find a problem is the very intrusive music that accompanies many documentary and wildlife programmes, which drowns out the commentary, such that we have to turn on subtitles. The worst of these is incessant drumming which seems to accompany many BBC programmes and is exacerbated by the excellent bass response of our sound system. We do not have a problem with normal speech and music programmes. Maybe the sound 'designers' have hearing problems at the bottom end?

I suppose that we could revert to the tinny sound of the speakers in the TV!

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Thursday 24 March 2016 10:42AM

I live in N Wales, 39 miles from Winter Hill with line of sight to the aerial. BayTVLiverpool is received perfectly with signal quality 10 and signal strength 10.

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Has anyone noticed a 'time delay' problem with BBC R4 on Holme Moss? We have two bedside radios, one tuned to Holme Moss and the other to Llangollen. When both are playing there's a noticeable 'echo' to the sound. If I retune to Sutton Coldfield and Holme Moss the problem persists, but not when tuned to Sutton Coldfield and Llangollen, which probably isn't surprising as I suspect that Llangollen retransmits the R4 signal from SC. Strangely, there isn't a problem with any of the other national services from HM and Llangollen. I've only noticed the problem recently, and I note from the BBC Engineering website that they refer to 'issues' with these transmitters.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Friday 9 March 2018 10:05AM

B Smith: I had similar problems as I did a simple update. When I did a full auto rescan of my TV (Panasonic) and Humax, everything worked fine.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Friday 9 March 2018 10:08AM

B Smith: I experienced a similar problem when I did a simple manual update. However, when I did a full auto rescan of my TV and Humax everything is fine.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Tuesday 17 April 2018 10:28AM

This is getting beyond a joke! Can't you do something about it, Briantist?

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Monday 30 April 2018 6:20PM

UHF channel 55 has disappeard and with it BBC News HD and a few others. Everything else is OK. Any ideas as no fault flagged.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Monday 30 April 2018 7:46PM

The missing programmes have just reappeared on UHF channel 32 which now carries programmes previously on 55. Nice of them to let us know.

Brianist - can we please have an update!

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