{"id":138,"date":"2005-06-09T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=138"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"nice-weather-for-ducts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/nice-weather-for-ducts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice weather for ducts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Its hot: Dublin Weather @ 22:48: Wind E 03Kt CLOUDY 14?C H 80% Rain 0.0, Yes 14C at 11pm, so the telly is on the blink.<\/p>\n<p>I had a party when we forcefully removed NTL from my old residence, then I got a second opportunity to tell them PFO when I moved house. In Astra 28E FTA TV land with the Irish 4 stations coming in via a gutter top Yagi, summer comes and the snow starts.<\/p>\n<p>Nice weather for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropospheric_ducting\">tropospheric ducting<\/A>, I used to think June came, we got school holidays tennis would come on the TV and the boys in RTE Relays \/ Cablelink went awol. Then I learned about tropospheric ducting and sporadic E (which is not the kind ravers use occasionally). The down side of the ducting is that one by one and you can follow them, the 4 irish channels get whacked, the up side is we get the rare chance to see far away pictures bounce onto our TV screens, or easier still French\/UK FM radio hit our radio dials. Last Friday at 17:59 Rachael English (5-7 live) briefly explained that the problems with RTE signal was outside of their control. <\/p>\n<p>Some of my mental logs of successes are Key 103 Manchester, Scottish Border TV and french and dutch FM unidentified radio signals. If there is a lift in the ionosphere I will scan around for signal but I wouldnt even call my call to this side of nature even amateur, just anoraky. 2 years ago NTL was claiming to relay digital BBC on the analogue cable in Dublin, the snow on the TV proved otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>So if you see diagonal lines scrolling on your TV this season, its ducting. Happy DX&#8217;ing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its hot: Dublin Weather @ 22:48: Wind E 03Kt CLOUDY 14?C H 80% Rain 0.0, Yes 14C at 11pm, so the telly is on the blink. I had a party when we forcefully removed NTL from my old residence, then I got a second opportunity to tell them PFO when I moved house. In Astra&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/nice-weather-for-ducts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice weather for ducts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}