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Nobody Here wrote:
> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>Nobody Here <news.reader@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Michael <someone@somewhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Apologies if this was posted earlier but it was on the news when I
>>>>>>was recently in Oz and probably has some relevance to UK
>>>>>>switchover plans. see
>>>>>>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds24794.html
>>>>>
>>>>>It has. Australia has legislation to prevent DTT broadcasts of
>>>>>channels that are not also available on analogue to prevent
>>>>>fragmentation of the advertising revenue. They've been trying to
>>>>>sell DTT to the Australian public on the basis of picture quality
>>>>>so it's been a bit of a flop, not surprisingly.
>>
>>>>What are they transmitting digital on?
>>
>>VHF and UHF, more VHF than UHF.
>>
>>
>>>>When I lived there 20 years ago most TV was on VHF,
>>>>although one Sydney station was on UHF as well I believe.
>>
>>Yep, SBS.
> 
> 
> Yes, that's right.  Never used to watch it, well rarely anyway.  It was
> a bit European for our tastes at the time.  After 20 years in Europe
> (well, England) though ...
> 
> 
>>>>VHF used to suffer quite badly from reflections,
>>>>maybe because of the long distances involved.
>>
>>Nope, no long distances involved.
>>
>>UHF has its own problems, particularly surprisingly deep holes.
> 
> 
> I think they're longer distances than we use on UHF here in the UK,
> it's rare to get a TV signal from more than 40 miles away.  Of course,
> you have a different perspective on the word "long" ;-)  We're also
> stuck in one of those deep holes.
> 
> 
>>>>When we moved here we were (UK) we were
>>>>astonished by the better picture quality, but it
>>>>was also a new  TV which might have helped :-).
>>>>Anyway, chances are that digital pictures
>>>>will be better than VHF analogue ones,
>>
>>Corse they are.
>>
>>
>>>>especially in the bush.
>>
>>Yep, some with basically unusable analog signals do fine with digital.
> 
> 
> Well my Outlaws line in Inverell NSW and I think their TV comes from
> Glen Innes, although I might be wrong, but the picture quality is very
> poor (on analogue).  That might be for a number of reasons - it's
> always been bad in the 25 years I've been going there, but certainly
> it would be much *much* better were it digital.  Every time a plane
> lands at the local airport there is a wobble in the pcture.
> 

The TV transmitter in Inverell is on the hill behind the hospital, it 
has never come from Glen Innes, where in Inverell are your Outlaws, if 
out of town on the western side they maybe getting their signal from Mt 
Kaputar near WEE WAA