No, it was prettyv good.. I had relatives in South Tamworth and i remember watching TV there and their antenna was pointed at Mt Dowe and reception was near perfect.
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interesting too that it seemed like people in Tamworth also getting fortuitous reception from Capital and WIN UHF translators in Coonabarabran
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Just thought of something else.
Perhaps Channel 0 only got mentioned because the other 4 channels didn’t broadcast from Bald Hill where Channel 0 was, they set up at Mt Soma, 30 kms south west of Tamworth, but Prime never did broadcast from there during the analogue era.
Prime did set up on analogue at Mt Soma (eventually, perhaps, maybe not in time with the others. This is from 1999)
Tamworth
NEN0 Commercial 46.260 H DA 2k -31 4 38 150 57 27 1384314
Independent Communications Site Bald Hill TAMWORTH
ABN2 National 64.240 H DA 2k -31 4 40 150 57 27 1150609
Signal One Communications Site Bald Hill TAMWORTH
SBS52 National 695.224 H DA 96k -31 19 22 150 44 56 1152782
PCCC Site MT Soma Near TAMWORTH
ABUN55 National 716.224 H DA 96k -31 19 22 150 44 56 1150670
PCCC Site MT Soma Near TAMWORTH
NEN58 Commercial 737.224 H DA 120k -31 19 22 150 44 56 1384336
PCCC Site MT Soma Near TAMWORTH
NBN61 Commercial 758.224 H DA 120k -31 19 22 150 44 56 1384300
PCCC Site MT Soma Near TAMWORTH
NRN64 Commercial 779.224 H DA 120k -31 19 22 150 44 56 1384383
PCCC Site MT Soma Near TAMWORTH
I also find it interesting too that channels continued for as long as they did to stay on the VHF band. This was despite the push for them to migrate to UHF to free up VHF for other purposes
They got a licence for it, but i don’t think that was ever switched on.
Prime also already had VHF 11 from Quirindi to cover the southern areas too.
ah ok fair enough
The push to move services away from VHF was in the 1980s. I think aggregation (1990s) and running digital TV in parallel with analogue (2000s) put enough demands on capacity that VHF had to be retained?
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Like what?
Other than 3-5 for FM, and 5A for Defence, but don’t see what else 6-11 might be used for back then.
VHF was retained for digital in the capital cities and some country areas.
It was dependent on where you lived - south of the Peel River, it wasn’t too bad, on the northern side, it was mixed.
Yep - I had friends who were able to get the channels from Coona with an additional antenna
And from memory was only Mono audio
I’m pretty sure they did end up broadcasting from Soma
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My old man got one installed at our place in East Tamworth around 1990 so we could watch the NSWRL on Capital (Prime/9&8 must’ve stopped showing rugby league a season or two prior to aggregation).
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I think Prime still showed the league up until aggregation, but only 1 hour highlights from 6.30 Sundays. Not the comprehensive 90 min to 2 hours that 10/Capital showed.
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I’m almost certain Prime weren’t showing Friday night football at least.
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Yes, probably not Friday nights, just Sundays. I’ll have a look tomorrow and see if i can fund a guide.
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Thanks if you get a chance that’d be awesome.
Someone send that to 702 Drive… 
Where’s NRTV? Wasn’t NRTV there from the get go or did they thought people should consult the Capital listings?
2NM? Who thought 2NM was receivable in Tamworth? I tried and couldn’t get it!
NRTV didn’t start in Tamworth until later in January.
2NM had a good signal in Tamworth in the 80s at least.