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	Freeview on Pontop Pike TV transmitter \| ukfree.tv - get free UK television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		This transmitter is 450 metres above sea-level, and transmits at 9,666 watts.
		Pontop Pike is supported by numerous relay masts and these masts are under capacity and power to transmit digital
		Subsequent discussions with the sony helpline are suggesting that hd dvd recorders require a slightly different signal to that of tv's, and that the broadcasting authorities are aware of this and are working towards a solution,is anybody aware of this type of problem or the proposed solution.
	www.ukfree.tv /txdetail.php?a=NZ148526 (1594 words)

	Pike - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Dollywaggon Pike, fell in the Lake District, England
		Esk Pike, mountain in the Lake District, England
		Pontop Pike Television Transmitter, British transmitter tower near the village of Dipton, County Durham, England
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pike (653 words)

	Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Pike, used as a verb, means to shorten a longbow in Archery
		Pike Male elf character (skilled with a pike) in the comic book Elfquest
		Pike (cipher), stream cipher invented by Ross Anderson
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /p/i/k/Pike.html (541 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Pikes Peak or Bust!, slogan of miners heading to Colorado during the Colorado Gold Rush
		John Pike (settler) (1572–1654), settler in Newbury, Massachusetts
		Zebulon Pike (1779–1813), American soldier and Explorationexplorer for whom Pikes Peak is named
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Pike (508 words)

	British DX Club - Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		With the success of television in the Fifties and the decision to allow the start of commercial television further frequencies between 175MHz and 215MHz were released, becoming known as "Band Three" (BIII).
		Reception of the Crystal Palace transmitter (and its Alexandra Palace predecessor) on Channel 1 were renowned for their world-wide coverage during times of high sunspot activity.
		Most main transmitters used vertical polarisation and most relays used horizontal, although as is common today at UHF good use was made of either to help limit the amount of interference from other transmitters on the same channel.
	www.users.waitrose.com /~bdxc/lists/405.html (578 words)

	Bilsdale TV Transmitter
		Bilsdale television transmitter (TX) is a "guyed mast" structure (309m in height) and is Horizontally polarised.
		Opened in 1969, the transmitter is about 15 miles SSE of Middlesborough and it`s population coverage is around a million.
		All these transmitters are receivable within Bilsdales coverage area and this information can be very useful for identifying causes of co-channel interference and so forth.
	www.aerialsandtv.com /bilsdaletx.html (383 words)

	On This Day In Broadcasting - May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Television network service began in the USA in two groups of cities, centred on New York and Chicago.
		Two new BBC television transmitters opened, Pontop Pike on channel 5 and Glencairn on channel 1.
		ITV began in the North of England, from the Winter Hill transmitter on channel 9, with Granada operating the weekday franchise.
	www.tinsleyviaduct.com /broadcasting/may.html (440 words)

	Aerial Issues \| Articles \| Digital Terrestrial TV Reception
		Nevertheless, digital terrestrial television (DTT) came along and was duly slotted in, although the coverage achieved was, and is, a severe compromise.
		Transmitter output might be restricted in one or more directions, in order to prevent interference to another service.
		When the transmitter direction is roughly at right angles to the wall the installation is very neat, protruding only about 300mm.
	www.wrightsaerials.tv /digitalterrtvrecep.htm (7277 words)

	History of Wenvoe
		Along with Pontop Pike, these are the first of the newly built FM stations to be completed since the BBC's development plan for VHF was announced in July 1954, Wrotham, Kent, having been already built at that date.
		The Independent Television Authority placed a contract with Pye Ltd. for the transmitter for the South Wales and west of England TV station, which was to start operation towards the end of 1957.
		Ness Edwards asked the Postmaster General which television channel is to be made available in Band III for the separation of the West of England from Wales and if he has considered the relative advantage of keeping Wales on the present Band I channel, and using the Band III channel for the West of England.
	www.vintage-technology.info /pages/history/histwenvoe.htm (1474 words)

	The UK 405-Line Television Network
		The transmitters in the first batch that were due to close in the year 1982 are indicated in the tables.
		After a few months a production-line version of the transmitter was installed as a stand-by unit and the output of this was later combined with the original to double the operating power.
		In the Channel Islands' case the BBC ONE CI programme is assembled on the mainland to include contributions from the new St Helier studio, fed to Plymouth and thence 'backhauled' to London for uplinking to the Astra 2D satellite.
	www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk /405-Lines (5033 words)

	Frequency Finder UK - History of radio transmission
		A smaller 5 kW transmitter was opened at Penmon to bring the Welsh Regional Programme to North Wales and Aberdeen was replaced by a 5 kW transmitter at Redmoss.
		Pontop Pike for the North East and Wenvoe for South Wales and the West of England followed on the 20th December.
		Seven transmitters opened in 1956: Divis for most of Northern Ireland, Meldrum for the Grampian region of Scotland, North Hessary Tor for Devon and East Cornwall, Blaenplwyf for West Wales, Holme Moss for North West England and Yorkshire, Sutton Coldfield for the Midlands and Tacolneston for East Anglia.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /freq_find/trans_hist1.html (2271 words)

	UK Radio History 2, Post war BBC & Pirate Radio, Radio Luxembourg
		October 1951 brought television to the North from Holme Moss, to Scotland in March 1952 from Kirk o' Shotts and to South Wales and the West from Wenvoe in August 1952.
		For the West of England and South Wales from the Wenvoe transmitter (120 kW) was opened and transmissions for the North East from Pontop Pike (60kW) commenced.
		The transmitter was loud and extremely powerful at 1.2 million Watts, but listeners had to endure some deep fading and distortion as the signal came and went.
	www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com /mds975/Content/ukradio2.html (3425 words)

	Evaluation of a DVB-T compliant digital terrestrial system
		Signals were radiated on UHF Channel 28 from the Crystal Palace transmitting station in London, and on UHF Channel 59 from the Pontop Pike station in the North East of England.
		Second, at Pontop Pike a high-power combiner was used to combine the digital and PAL-I signals, which were then radiated from the same antenna.
		Measurements to determine this figure were made at both Crystal Palace and Pontop Pike, using the 16-QAM, rate 3/4 mode, with a guard interval of 7µs.
	www.bbc.co.uk /rd/pubs/papers/paper_08/paper_08.html (3029 words)

	rosamund pike - northern pike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Pike pike national forest County, northern pike fishing tips Illinois, christa pike USA
		Pike, rosamond pike stream cipher sweet betsy from pike invented by Ross Anderson
		Pontop canada northern pike fishing Pike Television Transmitter, British transmitter tower near the village of Dipton, County Durham, England
	www.infotechloco.com /Inf-Programming-M---Q/Pike.html (633 words)

	Digital Nationwide
		Listed below is every UK Digital transmitter and information on their location, their analogue and digital power outputs, their polarity*, if they transmit analogue Channel 5 and most crucially of all if they have changed group, ie require a wideband aerial.
		When considering which transmitter to receive your signals from always remember the critical factor is âLine Of Sightâ, generally speaking this is far more important than which is the nearest.
		Note Of all channels available from this transmitter only analogue C4 is outside the B group so those in poor reception areas may use a B group aerial to maximise their reception of the other channels (digital C4 is also on MUX 2).
	aerialsandtv.com /digitalnationwide.html (4458 words)

	BBC - R&D - Milestones 1970s
		The ruggedised log-periodic antenna was developed - this is the workhorse of the UHF television transmitter network.
		This system led to the invention of NICAM stereo sound with television, but was not taken up for radio.
		Demonstrations of VHF radio data (later to be known as RDS) reception given on "Tomorrow's World", at the Director of Engineering's Presidential Address to the IEE and at the International Broadcasting Convention, Brighton.
	www.bbc.co.uk /rd/milestones/1970s.shtml (612 words)

	TCC - Back to the 50s
		Again, I suspect that for the first few months, Pontop Pike must have radiated this locally, for it was several months before I discovered the delights of the Demonstration Film.
		I seem to recall that for the first few months Pontop Pike closed down at 12.00, and did not reopen until 15.00 with Test Card 'C' and tone until 15.08; then blank screen and silence until 15.10 followed by the tuning signal and music (national airs) until 15.14.
		Transmitters closed down after Children's Television, (which could last for anything between thirty and sixty minutes) until fifteen minutes before the start of evening programmes (firstly at 20.00, and later at 19.30) when the 15.00 sequence was adopted.
	tcc.members.beeb.net /Back50s.html (2293 words)

	Tyne Tees TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		However, in order to provide a service for colour television in the late 60s, UHF transmission began from Pontop Pike.
		The erection of the new Bilsdale transmitter in North Yorkshire created a major overlap problem for Tyne Tees and Yorkshire when its high strength signal was beamed deep into Yorkshire territory.
		Tyne Tees Television renewed its licence to broadcast programmes for a further 10 years in 1999.
	www.tynetees.tv /about/about_history-2.htm (313 words)

	Mickley Council
		The hills to the south of the valley prevent reception from the main transmitter at Pontop Pike.
		To receive digital transmissions each television must be designed to receive digital signals or it must have a special set-top box (cost £50 to £100).
		Upgrading the Newton transmitter to digital would enable all the current terrestrial station including Channels 5, as well as the free-to air BBC and ITV transmissions, e.g.
	www.mickley.plus.com /DigitalTV.html (313 words)

	Pontop Pike Television Transmitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pontop Pike Television Transmitter, grid reference NZ148526, is a British transmitter situated on a 205 metre high hill of the same name, between Stanley and Consett, County Durham, near the village of Dipton.
		It provides UHF and digital television transmissions to Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Tees Valley, most of Northumberland and parts of North Yorkshire.
		It was one of the first national FM transmitters in December 1955.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pontop_Pike_Television_Transmitter (269 words)

	Swalwell Memories 2
		Television started the day in its early years with an early afternoon programme for young children and then went off the air until around 5 PM when children's television began, after which it again closed down until 8 PM when the evenings' programmes began.
		BBC television shows of the 'fifties were The Lone Ranger, The Range Rider and The Cisco Kid from the USA, All Your Own (a magazine programme featuring children with a particular talent or hobby, introduced by Huw Wheldon) and Armand and Michaela Denis's wildlife programmes, all for children.
		Television was something affecting the lives of all and a whole new generation was growing up under its influence like no generation had before it.
	www.swalwelluk.co.uk /memstwo.html (2905 words)

	Frequency Finder UK - Radio 1 transmission history
		The transmitters serving the North, Midlands and South East were tripled in power and new high power transmitters introduced for the South West and the North East.
		Four transmitters were then ceremonially switched on through the day: Wrotham for the South East (replacing Crystal Palace), Tacolneston for Norfolk and Suffolk, Sandale for North East Cumbria and South West Scotland and Blaenplywf for Ceredigion and SW Gwynedd.
		Pontop Pike broadcast a test tone for over a month, so it could be opened on the day the Queen visited Newcastle.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /freq_find/r1_transmission.html (2137 words)

	On This Day In Broadcasting - June (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The television licence, covering radio as well, was launched, costing £2.
		The IBA relay at Torosay, later converted to a main transmitter, began carrying Scottish Television.
		The ITA transmitter at Rumster Forest opened, carrying Grampian Television on channel 8.
	www.tinsleyviaduct.com /broadcasting/june.html (345 words)

	405 Alive - Information - Back to the Fifties
		I was immediately enraptured by the concept of television broadcasting, and from time to time, I used to switch on during non-scheduled transmission time just to see what was happening.
		Obviously, for the first few months of transmission, Pontop Pike must have radiated this locally, for it was some months later before I discovered the delights of the original Demonstration Film.
		I seem to recall that for the first few months, the transmitters closed down at 12.00 and did not re-open until 15.00, when there was Test Card ‘C’ and tone until 15.08, followed by blank screen and silence until 15.10, tuning captions until 15.15, then programmes until 16.15.
	www.bvws.org.uk /405alive/info/prog_back50s.html (1082 words)

	Tyne Tees Television
		Following the logic of setting up transmitters in order of population coverage, North Eastern England was the next area to be picked; in October 1957 the site for the transmitter had been picked (Burnhope, 10 miles south west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) to serve about 2.67 million people, and the contract was advertised.
		A grand plan was negotiated to merge Tyne Tees, Yorkshire and Anglia into one television company, and the name `Trident Television' was coined, with each existing company one `prong' of the new one.
		A transmitter swap, with Bilsdale moving to Tyne Tees and Belmont to Yorkshire was agreed.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /itw/TTT/history.html (1185 words)

	Digital Spy Forums - Chatton Transmitter
		I'm wanting to put a portable TV with freeview box in a room on the north side of the house which doesn't have an aerial socket from the rooftop aerial in, By using an amplfied indoor aerial and just pointing it out the window towards Chatton.
		The Chatton transmitter transmits all freeview channels, but of varying powers: log onto www.bbc.co.uk/reception for further details.
		The service area of the Chatton transmitter extends as far south as Amble, but can also be received down the coastal strip as far south as Newbiggin and Ashington.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=408946 (355 words)

	mb21 - ether.net - ITV 405 line TV Transmitters - NE England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The important highly-populated industrial and agricultural area of North-East England, between the eastern slopes of the Pennine Chain and the sea, lies beyond the range of the Emley Moor transmitter in Yorkshire.
		Another station was therefore needed to provide an Independent Television service for this area.
		It was within a few miles of the BBC's existing Band I station at Pontop Pike.
	tx.mb21.co.uk /info/405/itv/ne_england.asp (250 words)

	Channel 5 Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		It is possible to receive channel 5 broadcasts from a non co-sited transmitter if the alignment polarity and bandwidth of the aerial are such that it will accept both transmissions.
		This is overcome by using higher gain aerials for the weaker signals and possibly amplification of channel 5 signal.
		If the existing four channels are being received from another main transmitter or even a repeater station which are within the coverage area of one of the channel 5 transmitters, then one of the options in note 2 applies.
	www.blake-uk.com /serv_trade_industry_info_c5_info.aspx (538 words)

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