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.

I like Broad Bottom and I cannot lie

Broadbottom must be my wife's mother's hometown

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!

I live in Ireland....before the advent of Digital signals most houses here had 3 aerials, 1 for receiving signals from local transmitters broadcasting the National TV stations, 1 aerial for receiving independent TV from large distant high power transmitters and another aerial for receiving UK signals either directly from the UK or from illegal deflector systems. Many houses also had satellite dishes as well and possibly an FM radio antenna so there was also another level of complexity. I spent 40 years installing these aerials and dishes and there was never a dull moment they were good times and reasonably profitable but I fear streaming services will ultimately replace everything.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

i love the subtle humor you blend in sometimes XD

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

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.

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.

I grew up in a valley where every television station tower was on a different hill. Our TV antenna had an individual Yagi for every station (all three of them) pointed in different directions. Each went to a "channel trap" (a passive bandpass filter) tuned to the station to avoid receiving multipath (ghosting) for other stations then they went into a combiner. That was what you had to do to get good TV reception there.