Archive for March, 2011

Dates have been announced for the Digital Switch Over along the South Coast covered by Meridian. Four television transmitters have been given DSO dates, Hannington, Midhurst, Whitehawk Hill and Rowridge. Changes will take place between 8^th February 2012 and 21^st March 2012.

Hannington covers parts of Hampshire, Berkshire and parts of Surrey.

Midhurst covers much of West Sussex.

Whitehawk transmits to Brighton.

Rowridge supply’s signals to Hampshire, Isle of Wight, parts of Dorset and West Sussex.

DSO will be carried out in two stages, Switchover Stage One and Switchover Stage Two. Dates for the remaining Meridian area transmitters will be announced shortly.

Over the next few blogs we will give increased levels of details focusing on Key dates, reception factors, retuning advice and how to get help, if needed.

The clock has started ticking so stay tuned.



Its been some time since the last blog,  time is short when your running around like a headless chicken. Much of the past few months has been taken up with extra training for the office staff and engineers.

We have under taken refresher “working at heights” courses and extra aerial installation courses for one of the new members of the team, but the most exiting courses at the moment at the Fibre Optical Installation courses.

Fibre Optics will change communal television installation as colour television did to black and white. The Digital Switch-over, DSO, has been the firing gun for Fibre installations. No longer will installations be restricted by the limitations of copper co-axial cable. Now an almost unlimited amount of television can be delivered along a glass strand the thickness of a human hair.

The developments are falling over themselves to get on the market. It now a long round of trade shows, courses and demonstations to get to grips with these developments and upgrade our installation skills. What exciting times these are!