ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: Salt disturbing our TV

Salt disturbing our TV
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Keith Nicol on 07 July, 2010 01:15:00

One possible solution is to erect two new masts.

Salt. Without Salt, where would Torrevieja be? On the one hand, it’s a godsend
during the winter months, used to melt snow and make roads safer, it’s
indispensable in the kitchen and for our Fish and Chips plus artisans even make
Salt Boats and gift items out of it! However a negative about living in the City
of Salt is the speed that salt can eat through metal, especially cars, plus its
newly discovered vice, that of disturbing the digital TV signals transmitted
from Torrevieja’s own TV mast, across the salt lakes and into Los Balcones and
Los Altos areas, to name but a few.
After much fanfare and 80,000 euros later, Torrevieja erected its own Digital TV
Mast atop the Aguamed Tower beside the Tourist Office and close to St. Jamie
Hospital. 100,000 plus residents and visitors looked forward to a host of new
channels, being able to view some of their TV shows in the original language
plus better TV reception than previously enjoyed on the old and antiquated
Analogue system. All sounded too good to be true and for many living in and
around Torrevieja, this has proved to be the case.
Step in Torrevieja’s Councillor for New Technology and Foreigners, Pedro
Valero. Residents, both international and Spanish had altered him to the problem
caused by a combination of interference from the salt lakes and phasing issues
from other Digital broadcast masts and he is taking a personal interest in
trying to find a solution for the problem. One possible solution is to erect two
new masts, but in these times of crisis and at eighty grand a shot, it’s
something that was not in the annual budget, but this and alternative answers to
the problem are presently being discussed and all are hopeful of positive result
in the near future.
Keith Nicol