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TV Deflector Systems

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  • #2
    Rick Hall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Rick Hall


    The receive is supposed to work like a big satellite dish, with the "fence" being the reflector/dish & the "colour king" aerials as the feed.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    "Deflector" was usually a euphemism for illegal re-transmission. Due to Political stupidity they were later offered licences. All have now expired. The So called "Deflectors" are now illegal.

    They varied by sight as to how the the UK signal was received and how re-transmitted. After 1999 many gradually converted to Satellite reception for UK TV. Channel 5 was being retransmitted from Analogue Satellite reception in many locations before Sky Digital Launched. Initially a UK FTV card (once off payment from an N.I. Address usually) which gave BBC, C4, S4C and Five. ITV was added to Sky Digital later. S4C was first to go FTA (no card) followed by BBC, ITV, C4 and last was Five.

    Some so called "Deflectors" were well engineered. Many were rubbish put together by trial and error by an inept local TV shop.

    Many funded by TV Shops / Aerial installers to help sales of TV and Aerials. Others by enthusiasts. In theory most relied on "subscriptions".


  • #4
    aaronenglish81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭aaronenglish81


    They are very interesting. Were They Expensive to make ?


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Expensive to do properly.
    Very cheap to do badly.
    But the complexity and cost depended on geography, distance from Wales or N.I. distance from hamlet, village, town or city served.

    Mostly pretty simple. Just a very large high up receive aerial was main difficulty. Once all the stations on Sky Digital using a UK FTV (Solas) card then the transmitter(s) could be sited at best location for viewers and fed by Sky Digiboxes. In the last days any Satellite box.


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