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here's some pic's of a Rediffusion headend.

http://www.rediffusion.info/rcs.html

scroll to the bottom of page.

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Not a headend, but here's VM Towers aka HQ:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...05477&t=h&z=18

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Birmingham: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...01714&t=h&z=19

and

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...12,305.76,,0,5

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Now this looks interesting, look at the shadows on the ground....
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...,0.003433&z=18

What could it be?:)

Or, could it be here?:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...10954&t=h&z=17

---------- Post added at 10:39 ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 ----------

Here's a overhead shot of a boring business park, can't better it I'm afraid, nothing of interest there of course:;)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...10954&t=h&z=17

Re: Headends.
 

Crawley Court - Arqiva
Morn Hill - Arqiva
Langley DMC - Virgin.

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....he knows his stuff.

For those less familar with this stuff, the last one is the super headend at Langley (Slough). The other two are teleports and you can actually see some dishes. The teleports were both used by ntl, in fact owned by them, before the broadcast side got hived off.

Put it like this, the tv signals come into the super headend and are sent out, distributed, through the teleports.

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The Super headend takes in signals, but the feeds to the regions are all done by fibre. No teleports involved.

Theres dishes visible outside the DMC as well, all 3metre dishes, all downlink dishes.

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I know VM have fibre links to the regions and to Sky etc, but didn't ntl used to distribute the different ITV regions via the teleports as but one example? Although, we're probably talking some years ago now.

Perhaps a certain spidery friend of the forum could take a few snaps of Langley when he's next there?? Just to show it really exists!:)

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The uplinking of ITV is one of the things that Arqiva do, but its nothing to do with cable. The cable headends either use the local DTT site to acquire their ITV or they use the Astra 2 downlink to acquire the correct ITV.

I wonder if it has changed much, but I doubt photo's would be approved of.

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Thanks for that. I'm getting my terrestrials confused with my cables here.:)

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i shall try and re-send it again later as i'm at work at the moment and can't get google earth sorry don't know how that happened :(

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Photos wouldn't be allowed.. that would be a security issue for sure.

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I didn't realise that Langley was that Langley, isn't Slough still a analogue area?

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ntl built their DMC in Langley. It was at the time a Telewest area, before the merger. The DMC does not feed any region directly.

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