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Old 13th May 2014, 8:23 pm   #124
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Default Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials in 2013

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Originally Posted by Gulliver View Post
Here's the H aerial on my mum's house in Letchworth. I think it's attached to a socket in the living room. We tried said socket for UHF television when we moved to the house in 1979 and got poor reception, but not zero.
I wonder which transmitter it was aimed at? The vast majority of 'main' BI/III transmitters were vertically polarised, and the local/infill repeaters were generally horizontal-polarisation to get a bit of extra discrimination against the distant 'main' transmitters on the same channel.
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