Here in South Yorkshire we do not expect to receive Winter Hill, because the
Pennines are in the way. However, my house has a good view to the west, so I
have an XG21CD on a pole on the back yard. We used to use it for Granada in
the days when having more than three channels was rather exotic. The aerial
is actually pointing almost at Emley Moors as well as at Winter Hill, which
is unfortunate because the Emley signals from it are at about 30dBmV
(analogue ch51) whereas the Winter Hill analogues were always at about
-17dBmV. I used to use a single channel preamp made from an old TV tuner for
ch59.
Anyway, please excuse this long and tedeous preamble, but I am an old man
and I am much given to waffling. Today I hooked up a 9dB masthead amp to the
XG21. The amp was one of Mr Wade's excellent products, and it withstood the
onslaught of Emley signals perfectly. Not a trace of a problem there.
Remarkable.

This is what I received today (signal levels are from aerial; BER is before
FEC):

ch55 analogue -17dBmV

ch56+offset  -33dBmV; 2k; no useable decode

ch59 analogue -17dBmV

ch62-offset(big gap between 62 and 63!) digi -24dBmV; BER 5.7E-3; 8k
Network: NWest; BBC; good solid reception.

ch63+offset(big gap between 62 and 63!) digi -30dBmV; BER 1.0E-2; 2k;
Network: NWest; MTV Europe; not watchable due to break up.
	
ch65 analogue -19dBmV

ch66+offset  -35dBmV; no decode; CCI from Belmont I assume

ch67 overwhelming CCI from Crosspool

ch68+offset  -37dBmV; no decode; CCI from Belmont I assume

Bill