Where is the head end for neport wales located

mob227 · 13-09-2005, 18:16

Where is the head end for newport wales located, as im a satellite & tv enginner and was just wondering what equiptment there useing and also any one got any photos of inside and outside the headend thanks

Chris W · 13-09-2005, 18:21

neport or newport??

Escapee · 13-09-2005, 18:27

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Originally Posted by mob227

Where is the head end for neport wales located, as im a satellite & tv enginner and was just wondering what equiptment there useing and also any one got any photos of inside and outside the headend thanks

The Headend is in Cardiff, there are 2 hubsites in Newport east in Maindee and west on The estate opposite big W.

mob227 · 13-09-2005, 19:36

where in maindee

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The Headend is in Cardiff, there are 2 hubsites in Newport east in Maindee and west on The estate opposite big W.

any one know where the head end is in cardiff and any photos thanks

Graham M · 13-09-2005, 23:29

errr? ive heard of trainspotting, but headend spotting? worrying

marky · 13-09-2005, 23:37

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errr? ive heard of trainspotting, but headend spotting? worrying

its a bit like hotel spotting, you never know it may move

jtwn · 13-09-2005, 23:46

It's cooooool, think of all those.....wires....and circuitboards /dreams

Seriously though, it might be interesting, that is if my image of glass walls and blue lights and racks of gajizmos with glowing glass threads plugged into a bajillion sockets....I'll stop now.

From what my Dad tells me who's work's office is down there, they moved 10 seconds down the road from one plain looking building to another...plain looking building, nothing to see apart from some dish thing on the roof.

Chris W · 14-09-2005, 08:44

The Swansea headend is equally unexciting from the outside- apart from a few satellite dishes, some random pieces of cabinet and a few ntl vans, you would miss it if you didn't know it was there.

Inside, however, .... oooooh shiny

PWS · 14-09-2005, 09:40

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The Swansea headend is equally unexciting from the outside- apart from a few satellite dishes, some random pieces of cabinet and a few ntl vans, you would miss it if you didn't know it was there.

Inside, however, .... oooooh shiny

Getting in to a HE is difficult even for directors.
My Mate works in a HE and escorted an ntl director out of the HE itself and into the hallway as he wasnt escorted and was not signed in lol

quadplay · 14-09-2005, 16:55

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Getting in to a HE is difficult even for directors.

Blimey, I must be special, then. Was wandering around the Teesside one this week, and the Bromley one a few weeks ago...

The buildings are usually quite plain apart from the massive satellite dishes - helps to avoid attacks, I'm told. Some of those dishes though... Wow!

SMHarman · 14-09-2005, 17:16

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Blimey, I must be special, then. Was wandering around the Teesside one this week, and the Bromley one a few weeks ago...

or authorised

altis · 14-09-2005, 17:22

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The buildings are usually quite plain apart from the massive satellite dishes - helps to avoid attacks, I'm told.

Now, why would anyone want to attack an NTL headend?

Anyway, here's a photo of our nearest one. You can just make out the dishes on the roof.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53....7522&t=k&hl=en

Escapee · 14-09-2005, 17:40

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Originally Posted by mob227

where in maindee

any one know where the head end is in cardiff and any photos thanks

Portmanmoor Road

quadplay · 14-09-2005, 18:14

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Now, why would anyone want to attack an NTL headend?

Why to get at the shiny, gooey goodness inside!

marky · 14-09-2005, 18:17

Marky is still totally boggled by this thread

i'll get mi anorak