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Old 7th Jul 2020, 11:26 am   #703
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Default Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials 2013 to the present day.

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I bet people in strong signal areas carried on using them for 625 UHF. Just a thought, in a very strong signal area would it be possible to receive a modern day digital TV signal good enough to get a picture?
Even close to Winter Hill, the early sets had valve tuners and the NF at the top end of Band 5 was poor, needed every bit of signal to get a snow free picture. Transistor tuners were a great improvement.
No doubt some could get by with the wrong aerial but we couldn’t from Winter Hill and it was line of sight.
In 1969 when all 3 stations were on UHF we usually fitted a new aerial with a new set.
Thanks Frank. I was just trying to say that I bet some people, signal level allowing, simply carried on with their old VHF aerial if they could get a picture.
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