Brixton news, rumours and general chat - March 2018
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Why do they leave them on?
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No idea. They appear to be on every night. Such a waste.
Have the fuckers been alerted to this?
cuppa tee
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someone, my guess is TFL in cahoots with SGN, is playing a cunt's trick on people who live in my neck of the woods,
and the ones feeling it most are people who are least able to get around under their own steam
the gas main works at the hillyard st/brixton road junction mean the southbound groveway bus stop is shut
this is a busy stop, being used by a lot of parents with kids at the durand primary and people mostly women heading into brixton to do the weeks shopping
until last thursday this was mitigated by a temporary bus stop a bit up the road but it was removed
for no apparent reason as it did not interfere with traffic.
Now peeps with shopping trolleys, mobility probs pushchairs etc have to walk no small distance to the next or previous stop.
i have seen quite a few older residents looking forlorn as the bus goes straight past
Ironically tfl seem to have plenty resources to service the hire bikes at the end of normandy road.
if you want a bit of gentrification perspective then consider how irritants like this long standing situation might give some less mobile/older people the final nudge to get the fuck out of denver
and the ones feeling it most are people who are least able to get around under their own steam
the gas main works at the hillyard st/brixton road junction mean the southbound groveway bus stop is shut
this is a busy stop, being used by a lot of parents with kids at the durand primary and people mostly women heading into brixton to do the weeks shopping
until last thursday this was mitigated by a temporary bus stop a bit up the road but it was removed
for no apparent reason as it did not interfere with traffic.
Now peeps with shopping trolleys, mobility probs pushchairs etc have to walk no small distance to the next or previous stop.
i have seen quite a few older residents looking forlorn as the bus goes straight past
Ironically tfl seem to have plenty resources to service the hire bikes at the end of normandy road.
if you want a bit of gentrification perspective then consider how irritants like this long standing situation might give some less mobile/older people the final nudge to get the fuck out of denver
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Try reporting it here. Enter Hillyard St as the street name.
https://tflportal.icasework.com/form?&Login=false&Type=Roadworks&NoAbout=Yes
https://tflportal.icasework.com/form?&Login=false&Type=Roadworks&NoAbout=Yes
cuppa tee
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already did, and by phone too
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On a related note, the live jazz nights on Thursdays at PoW seem to have gone off the boil. The band has changed and they have an incredibly talented young drummer who seemingly has carte blanche to fill every song with a succession of flams, frills, fiddly bits and looong solos to the detriment of the groove. The full ID scan on the door puts people off and there's far fewer locals going so it's not as busy.
On the other hand, Wednesdays at the 414 are bloody brilliant.
T & P
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Why is there more work needed anyway? I thought they had had work done on the facade just a few years ago. Could be mixing it up with another stretch of the street though.
CH1
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I have been traumatised to have Alistaire Sooke cut off in his prime discussing Greek statues found in the sea, and Rico Hizon presumably the same considering Trump Facebook.
Apparently the Crystal Palace transmitter is doing "700 MHz clearance" which I believe means shifting the stations around to accommodate yet more mobile phone networks.
Retuning will be required in the morning for those wanting channel 106/107 and maybe more.
Please note this is not the end of the matter. There is another scheduled retune on 18th April (see chart in the link).
Apparently the Crystal Palace transmitter is doing "700 MHz clearance" which I believe means shifting the stations around to accommodate yet more mobile phone networks.
Retuning will be required in the morning for those wanting channel 106/107 and maybe more.
Please note this is not the end of the matter. There is another scheduled retune on 18th April (see chart in the link).
ricbake
working out how
Is there any work to be done? The scaffold looks like it is just there to hold up the advert.
CH1
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Clearly this issue does not affect anyone here - nor in the Beehive apparently where it seems customers are happy to pay Sky £70 per month, but take any means necessary to avoid paying for a TV license.
In case anyone is interested in the technicalities, the HD Freeview channels have been moved to the old channel 59/60.
This can affect some customers such as myself who followed earlier instructions to install a band A aerial to avoid interference from mobiles.
Now that HD channels have been switched to HF channels Band A aerial users will have to install broad bandwidth Band X aerials.
Fortunately in my case this means going into the loft, but people who have aerial installers on their chimney might be more pissed off.
Freeview have given absolutely no information out about this - and help sites link to aerial installers.
Just for editor - can you wonder when look who is bringing us this amazing infrastructure (and Smart Meters too!)
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It’s my friend from Denmay fabrics in Station Road new shop , please support him he’s one of us !
Rushy
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Best of luck to him. Quite brave. So much of the business for furnishings has moved online. Do you know what it will be called?
ricbake
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Pickman's model
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Maybe I wasn't watching when the message about retuning was on. My own channel 8 (London Live) was not affected, but am currently missing channels 106-113 pending replacing the loft aerial.
I retuned on a lash-up in the living room using the replacement broadband aerial and it does bring everything back though not satisfactorily because of buses up and down Coldharbour Lane.
Pickman's model
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Apologies for posting this, but this TV retuning has really got my goat. I spent half an hour this morning replacing my Band A loft aerial (a massive beast) with a much smaller broadband one.strange how you keep london live but i lose itnot sure which of us got the better deal
This has not cured my problem - in fact it demonstrates why I put in the large aerial in the first place. I now have HD on one of my TVs not the other. In addition I get black screen loss of signal even on BBC2 HD for a minute or so whenever a train goes past on the Overground tracks behind me. (The railway viaduct is unfortunately level with my roof).
This afternoon I am going to have to try to get a precise bearing for the Crystal Palace mast to see if I can improve the signal by correctly pointing the aerial.
Meanwhile I have found an autistic nerds guide to TV aerials with is absolutely fab. Freeview/Freesat Digital TV. It's got everything you want to know about Freeview transmitters sand aerials. The root of the present problem is OFCOM for selling off part of the TV spectrum to the mobile phone companies:
700 MHz clearance
MUXES 7 & 8 are not officially classifed as “protected”, in fact they`re due to be switched off between 2020 and 2022 anyway
Back in 2012 Ofcom started a discussion about selling off even more of the TV spectrum, i.e. that from CH49 up to CH60 : “the 700MHz clearance”. By October 2016 Ofcom confirmed that the 700MHz band would be available for mobile data by the second quarter of 2020. Obviously all TVs will all need retuning at every change in transmission frequencies.
The “new wideband” will be the (existing) K group ! Well more or less, because the esoteric HD MUXES (7 and 8) will be transmitted on CHs 55 and 56 from all transmitters (on a Single Frequency Network), so for those who want those channels a wideband (or Yagi18K which works higher up the band than other K groups) would be required. Note that MUX 7 and 8 are due to be switched off sometime after 2022, though it may be as early as 2020 (section 5.16 in this Ofcom pdf ). It must be said MUXES 7 & 8 don`t get particularly large audience figures anyway, see these forum posts.
NB: MUXES 7 & 8 carry BBC News HD, BBC Four HD, Channel 4 +1 HD, Al Jazeera, RT HD. So interested to see if they drop HD opera & ballet in favour of betting, roulette etc which we know they cover but don't get mentioned in the data sheets.
Pickman's model your issue with London Live is covered in this technical stuff.
The transmitter provides these services:
Programme to MUX allocations (For England, correct as at 21 Mar 18)
MUX 1 / BBC A = Main BBC channels (including the BBC Text & Radio)
MUX 2 / D3 & 4 = Main ITV, C4 and C5 channels + ITV2 / 4 + More 4 + E4 + Film4
MUX 3 / BBC B HD = HDTV channels : BBC1 / 2 / 3 + CBBC + ITV + C4 + C5
MUX 4 / SDN = ITV3 + CITV + QVC + FIVE USA + Quest
MUX 5 / Arqiva A = Dave + Sky News + Pick TV + Really + E4 plus 1 + Challenge
MUX 6 / Arqiva B = Yesterday + Ideal World + 4Music + Travel Channel + Dave ja vu
MUX 7 / COM 7 = HDTV channels : BBC News + Al Jazeera + C4+1
MUX 8 / COM 8 = HDTV channels : BBC4 + Cbeebies + QVC + BT Showcase
“Local” MUX = Local TV + Tiny Pop + truTV (SPX) + Pop Max
The last one is London Live, and the transmitter power is 20kW copared to 200kW for the main MUX1-6 services.
So looks like the signal strength for you is too low to be detected on retuning, which might be remedied if you tuned your aerial round a bit? If you are really desperate guess the company providing the website details above would be pleased to help!
The reason they are doing this is that 700mhz is better at penetrating buildings, solid objects and over longer range. This is super useful for 4g and 5g which have traditionally been in the higher frequencies and have therefore had less building penetration and shorter ranges. This means that 4g and 5g can be rolled out more cheaply, as longer range means less base stations.
Good news is that most mobile devices (eg Apple since the 6s) have supported 700mhz for a couple of years, so once the providers can use these these ranges we should be able to take advantage of them pretty quickly.
Penetration. Fnar.
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