#overspill

Morning

Dam's broke, heads' a waterfall.

I got both chapters up today!!! Chapter nine is honestly just Huma ft politics.

Signal overspill is the receiving of a broadcast signal outside of its geographical target area. Radio frequencies have no way of obeying geographical borders and licensing arrangements, and the extent of overspill depends on where broadcast transmitters are sited and their power. In addition to traditional transmitters, overspill occurs when the footprint of a satellite is greater than that needed to serve its target audience.

Transmitters located near to international borders may overspill into a large part of a neighbouring country, for example the signal from Republic of Ireland broadcaster 2RN's Clermont Carn site can be picked up in a large swathe of Northern Ireland, and vice versa BBC broadcasts can be picked up in the Republic.

Overspill is usually welcomed by listeners and viewers as it gives them additional choices, when for example the Republic of Ireland began to migrate to a digital platform measures were put in place so that viewers in Northern Ireland could continue to receive the channels they had become used to. However, legally and often politically overspill can be unwelcome. Broadcast rights are sold on a per territory basis, and overspill can be seen as harmful to the commercial and intellectual property rights of creators.

Politically some governments may be wary of their own populace becoming too familiar with the culture of a neighbouring country or territory and feel threatened by it. For example, in China prior to its reforms, television dramas from Hong Kong could be easily picked up in neighbouring Guangdong. Cross border radio and television reception was an important influence on political developments In Germany during the cold war.

Overspill may have an accidental soft power effect, for example for many years listeners in the Netherlands were able to pick up BBC radio signals, listeners wanting to learn English would tune into the BBC leading to a British cultural influence on the Netherlands. Some nations will purposefully site transmitters and broadcast at a higher power than strictly necessary as a purposeful exercise in soft power. With regards to television, countries wishing to prevent this will choose a television encoding system incompatible to that of its neighbours.

Tuesday 29th December 2020 - Photos and sightings at home and Lakeside: 10 different photos in this set to those I tweeted tonight 

We had some more wintery showers early this morning, I took the first picture in this photoset among others I tweeted of the light snow falling. I had never really captured snow or sleet falling (other than with it already laid) with a camera before because as I mentioned yesterday at Southampton Old cemetery when we saw sleet its not always the best weather to get a camera out within in terms of keeping them dry. But I had never really during my normal working life of being in the office in Winchester had the moment where I was indoors at home watching it snow or sleet fall outside or at least when in on a snow day or a weekend had never had the idea so it gave me a unique opportunity today. 

It was nice sunshine by lunch time though, I took the second picture in this photoset of the sky as some blue came through and it got brighter. I had a great photo session with nice flowers I had noticed in the garden the past few days with my macro lens, the third picture in this photoset among others a product of this. In between still in flower hebe and fitting for Christmas holly in fruit stood some daffodil shoots heralding the hope of an eventual spring in the New Year. Something I think, whilst I am at the moment celebrating the epic wildlife and photography year 2020 has been for me and how lucky I have been to embrace that to the backdrop of this awful crisis for us all hitting so many so hard, overall we all need at the moment. 

My macro lens stayed fixed to my camera throughout a really sunny lunch time walk at my local country park Lakeside. I loved in this sunshine getting unique angles for pictures in my first time back here since Christmas Eve another sunny one I did take so many pictures today. Including the other seven pictures in this photoset views all at various points, and one of overspill to the westernmost lake that I photographed with sun shining across nicely which I tweeted. The lakes and I suppose this one in my head in particular, as they were on a Boxing Day ten years ago memorably for me, I wondered if they might be frozen in this current cold snap. They might yet but were not today, meaning the brilliant Great Crested Grebes and a large number of special for an urban area Tufted Ducks were still around. I very much enjoyed watching them, and I got a particularly brilliant view of one grebe on the adjoining lake and chatted at a safe social distance briefly to a man about it which was nice. A great varied day of photos and wildlife around working to ease me back into working this week. I hope you all had a good day or as good as it could be.