This is a pretty cool experiment. Not only does it show that the networks are willing to work together to get rid of MPEG-2, but that the results from WIN doing the same thing earlier in the year must be positive.
I agree that this would have been a good opportunity to just make them HD instead of SD because we can see with Seven, Ten and SBS that this is where FTA is heading, but it probably would have changed the results they’re after.
Despite this, seems the temptation was too great for some, so I’ve cleaned up some posts. The history section might be a better option for those who wish to remind us of the mid 2000s
On the TV Tonight Lounge section someone commented that channel 17 has something called “Gecko channel coming soon”. I don’t live in a metro area so I can’t check. Does anyone know?
Got a picture of one of the lowest powered TV sites in the nation. The 0.01 watt ERP transmitter site at Maroochydore Beach Holiday Park. Transmit antenna is on the left and off-air receive antenna is on the right. Retransmits the Dulong transmitter services on Band 3.
Myswitch suggests that the whole caravan park should have good to strong reception from Dulong (Nambour), so why they’re doing this is a bit of a mystery to me. I would think Brisbane could interfere with it during tropo too since the caravan park retransmit is on VHF.
Myswitch also doesn’t list the Holiday Park service at all.
I note there’s some holiday apartments within a block of it, this could be a challenge for a MS DXer to go up there and see if they can DX it from outside the caravan park! Would be interesting to see if 0.01 watt would make it that far.