The TV Aerials In This Town Face The Wrong Way - The Reason Is Genius!

My mum and dad lived in Broadbottom just before I was born. The poor TV reception and lack of local entertainment at the time might indirectly be the cause of my existence.

In this world there are bird watcher, plane spotters, train spotters and the very rarified antennae twitchers.

Broadbottom must be my wife's mother's hometown

I like Broad Bottom and I cannot lie

You've had 114 accidents because of looking at antennas? I love you, man. You're just like me. When my daughter was barely able to talk and we were riding down the interstate, she would very often point and call out "Tower, daddy... tower!". Yep, I'm always looking at towers and antennas everywhere I go. Love your videos!

You didn’t really answer the original question, which was, Why do aerials face different directions on the same house? Surely one or the other transmitter would be preferable for any specific location so why multiple aerials?

Love from Romania! on the 24 april I Will have my ham radio license exam,hope I pass it! 73

I dont have a TV antenna on my roof........since free to air TV is like drinking out of a toilet bowl. All I need is the internet and real informative content like Ringway Manchester.

On high ground in Glossop you will often see two TV antenna's facing different directions. One vertically polarised for the Glossop repeater and one normally high gain horizontally polarised for winter hill. The reason for this is the Glossop repeater doesn't give us all the channels that are available from winter hill, like Sky news ect.

The satellite dish at 8:56 is for DAB Backhaul.

Before the wall came down, the Stasi would reward loyal East Germans who would report their fellow Berlin neighbors for having their TV antennas pointed towards the decadent West and not the German Democratic Republic in the East.

Not only are radio geeks, we are antenna geeks, too!

i love the subtle humor you blend in sometimes XD

I grew up in the west Midlands, 7 miles from Sutton Coldfield as our main uhf site. I was always fascinated by tv and radio reception, and when I started to learn the tv trade I managed to get hold of some surplus uhf aerials and started to play around in the loft. I managed to get Granada from winter hill, with borderline colour, and also htv Wales and s4c. These were both constant signals, but on occasional times, due to tropospheric conditions I also received Anglia tv from sandy heath. It was my holy grail to try and receive itv London, but sadly I never managed this. Needless to say, I also became a vhf 2 metre radio ham. Those were the days.

I knew a guy whose small community was near the beach, on the wrong side of a hill from the TV transmission tower. The community's developer decided to do what was fashionable then, and install a relay tower that received the analog TV signals and sent them down pre-installed coaxial cable to all the homes. Homeowners would then pay a monthly fee for access. Until one day, the developer went bankrupt and the coaxial cables went dead. The residents association took over the relay with the help of a technically-minded local resident, but the signal that reached the houses was pretty rubbish. I think they realized that they had no hope of supporting the repairs of decoder boxes, so this was never going to be a long-term solution. Fortunately, analog TV was being phased out and the government gave grants to people in this community to have satellite dishes installed instead.

Thanks for the information on the viaduct, a small diversion which I guess upset nobody on this channel.

I used to live in Didcot Oxfordshire, starting in the 70's we had 3 antennas on our roof pointing in different directions, coming down to a couple of switches, our best reception was midlands TV (now central), but we had the option of getting London or Southernn TV, though sometimes a litle more grainy, several programmes were regional, so it was a way to get alternatives, this was before Sky TV was poplular.

The same thing here in Chelmsford where we are on the edge of the Crystal Palace transmitter and also on the edge of the Sudbury transmitter. As London and Norwich broadcast different programmes at various times we have a choice. (just don't try set top aerials around here, the never work!)

Those panning drone shots of the passing trains are not easy to do, very well done.