On the Meridian transmitter map they have the Luccombe transmitter as a relay of Rowridge, when it is actually a relay of Hannington, which means some poor sods on the Isle of Wight have to have "Thames Valley Tonight" as their local ITV news... Does this mean it is going to switch to a Rowridge feed??

Also I live in Weymouth & am lucky enough to live in a part of town where I can get good reception from Rowridge & have Freeview already. As our relay transmitters here are switching next year, (but we wont be getting all the muxes on them, so not all the channels will be available), after Rowridge has switched in 2012 & increased in power, will the signal be able to be picked up in the rest of Weymouth? As friends & family here in other parts of town cannot currently get a signal from Rowridge & would want to see all the available channels on Freeview, or would Stockland Hill be able to be picked up directly?? Its always puzzled me why the local relays here do not get fed from Rowridge anyway...

You'll get RTE1 and 2 on VHF from Mullaghanish a huge distance out in the Atlantic...

AHHHHH! VHF (wipes away a misty tear) I remember it well.

The UK switched off VHF TV on the 3rd January 1985

Much to my annoyance! We were never allowed to have or see a TV, my parents believed that it was controlled by evil spirits! I was able to listen to Central on a portable radio in the garden! it fell around 86 or 87mhz just before Radio2 and only just within the tuning dial.

North Wales switchover dates announced:
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?...lass=0&id=3165

There does seem to be a distinct lack of captions online (not onscreen, don't live in the area in question).

Although I guess it's a case of finding somebody who:

A. Lives in or near the area
B. Has equipment capable of analogue screencapture (or a steady hand with a camera)
C. Knows about this forum
D. Has somewhere to upload the image, knowing full well that a few thousand DS geeks (myself included) will hit that image multiple times.

... So little change at all with Whitehaven, maybe better with Selkirk, and improving everytime a switchover looms.

If the caption is not significantly bigger than some of the crappy DOGs you see on TV, people won't even notice!

Digital UK people were out in force in Hawick this weekend
with Outdoor screens with P.A. systems
telling the good folk that they need to switch.
Sky had their SKY-HD vans there as well.
So it's all go for Wednesday

are you the one in cumbria ,switching over this week?

Has BBC 2 Analogue been removed from Selkirk yet ?

From what I have been reading from previous posts and ofcom, BBC2 Analogue was due to be turned off today.

I am a little mystified why there has not been any news coverage of the event (like in whitehaven's switch over).

Is there anyone actually watching TV from the Selkirk transmitter ?

It's 6th November when BBC2 gets turned off!

http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser....-in.4645859.jp

interesting read that

OFCOM have updated their Digital Switchover Transmission Details page today ....

Existing 81-Site Plan [pdf]
Issue 2.0, published 24|10|07

Border Region [pdf]
Issue 3.0, published 04|11|08

Central Region [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 04|11|08

Channel Islands [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 04|11|08

Granada Region [pdf]
Issue 2.0, published 24|10|07

STV Central Region [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 04|11|08

STV North Region v1.0 [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 04|11|08

Wales [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 24|10|07

West Region [pdf]
Issue 1.0, published 24|10|07

Westcountry Region [pdf]
Issue 3.0, published 04|11|08


DSO DETAILS

Existing 81-Site Plan

Border

Central

Channel Is.

Granada

STV Central

STV North (Grampian)

Wales

West Region

West Country


Also a list of all UHF Stations

The first page of the downloaded file for Border still has the text:

"Digital Switchover
Transmitter Details

Border Region

Issue 2.0
Issued: 24 October 2007"

Lars

And to save anyone else from round here wasting time and capacity downloading the Central Region file has no details for the Oxford transmitter group.

i am sure they'll be news coverage of that. whos next in line?

The Selkirk switch off should allow any problems to be sorted before switch off proper starts next April, will move quite quickly and by this time next year all of the south west region, border region, granada region and most of Wales will be digital only

so the next transmitter in line is next april?

All the transmitters swithing in 2009:

Beacon Hill - Torbay and south Devon - 8 April 2009
Stockland Hil -Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset - 6 May 2009
Douglas - Isle of Man - 18 June 2009
Caldbeck - Cumbria, south west Scotland and the south Lakes - 24 June 2009
Huntshaw Cross - North Devon - 1 July 2009
Redruth - West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly - 8 July 2009
Caradon Hill - Plymouth, parts of Devon and east Cornwall -12 August 2009
Kilvey Hill - The Swansea area - 12 August 2009
Preseli - Much of south west Wales - 19 August 2009
Carmel - Parts of south and central Wales - 26 August 2009
Llanddona - North west Wales - 21 October 2009
Moel-y-Parc North - east Wales - 28 October 2009
Long Mountain - Parts of east and central Wales - 4 November 2009
Winter Hill - Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and north Staffordshire. - 4 November 2009

great i'll make a note of that,& stick it on my calender for next year

Digital UK have announced the switchover date of 24 March 2010 for the first group of transmitters in the West region

Bristol Ilchester Crescent Parts of Bristol
Bristol Kings Weston Parts of Bristol
Mendip Parts of Somerset, Wiltshire,Gloucestershire and Bristol

that wouldn't be ray...davis............

Hello.
I don't think this document has been mentioned before, but here's a link to the BBC's coverage plan for DTT, with the frequencies for the two multiplexes that will carry BBC services after switchover (Mux 1 and the HD Mux) for every transmitter in the UK, including new ones at Great Yarmouth, Clacton, Lowestoft etc and the transmitter power:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/pdf/coverage.pdf

I hope you find it as informative as I have.