Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the analogue
channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back after an hour or
two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no idea when they came
back, cos I went to bed.

Dan.

In article <4311d936$0$29438$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>,
	Dan Ellis wrote:

> Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the analogue
> channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back after an hour or
> two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no idea when they came
> back, cos I went to bed.


From another place, "Mains failure into the site, I believe."

-- 
Paul Martin

In article <4311d936$0$29438$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>, Dan Ellis
 writes

>Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the analogue
>channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back after an hour or
>two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no idea when they came
>back, cos I went to bed.
>
>Dan.


Widespread mains failure in the area....
-- 
Tony Sayer

tony sayer wrote:


> > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the
> > analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back
> > after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no
> > idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
> > 
> > Dan.
> 
> Widespread mains failure in the area....


Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.

An administrative cock-up was the cause.

J

"John"  wrote in message 
news:df0t4o$55c$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...

> tony sayer wrote:
>
>> > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the
>> > analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back
>> > after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no
>> > idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
>> >
>> > Dan.
>>
>> Widespread mains failure in the area....
>
> Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
> electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.
>
> An administrative cock-up was the cause.
>
>

That happened to Sunshine Radio in Ludlow a few years back when they were 
late with the rent - needless to say they have paid on time since,lol

"John"  wrote in message
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> tony sayer wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the
> > > analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back
> > > after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no
> > > idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
> > >
> > > Dan.
> >
> > Widespread mains failure in the area....
>
> Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
> electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.
>
> An administrative cock-up was the cause.
>


Are you talking here by any chance of Fareham MF?

When it went unmanned nobody thought about telling the Southern Electricity
Board that they had "moved out" and the bills started piling up on the
doormat until they were cut off ! :-)

In article <43149b6d$0$22939$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
   Doctor D  wrote:


> "John"  wrote in message
> news:df0t4o$55c$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> > tony sayer wrote:
> >
> > > > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the
> > > > analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back
> > > > after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no
> > > > idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
> > > >
> > > > Dan.
> > >
> > > Widespread mains failure in the area....
> >
> > Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
> > electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.
> >
> > An administrative cock-up was the cause.
> >

> Are you talking here by any chance of Fareham MF?

> When it went unmanned nobody thought about telling the Southern
> Electricity Board that they had "moved out" and the bills started piling
> up on the doormat until they were cut off ! :-)


You'd have thought that even if "unmanned" there would have been 3 monthly
visits, which would have led the bills being spotted.  And, didn't the bills
go straight to Engineering Accounts anyway?

-- 
From KT24 - in "leafy" Surrey

Using a RISC OS5 computer

charles wrote:


> > > > > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All
> > > > > the analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to
> > > > > come back after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones
> > > > > did too. I've no idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Dan.
> > > > 
> > > > Widespread mains failure in the area....
> > > 
> > > Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
> > > electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.
> > > 
> > > An administrative cock-up was the cause.
> > > 
> 
> > Are you talking here by any chance of Fareham MF?
> 
> > When it went unmanned nobody thought about telling the Southern
> > Electricity Board that they had "moved out" and the bills started
> > piling up on the doormat until they were cut off ! :-)
> 
> You'd have thought that even if "unmanned" there would have been 3
> monthly visits, which would have led the bills being spotted.  And,
> didn't the bills go straight to Engineering Accounts anyway?



Yes it was Fareham, which if I'm correct was maintained by some staff
based at Crystal Palace, So nobody visited that often as roads between
Portsmouth and South London were awful at best.

I can just imagine some poor sod being told at 5pm to travel down
to Fareham in middle of rush hour. Down the old A3 through Guildford
in the middle of that commuter traffic.

IIRC. All Tx bills were paid by a section based at LBH.

J