All posts by Shane Durrant
Below are all of Shane Durrant's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.MikeP: thank you for the reply. I never had this issue on the old aerial which i've had since the digital switch over, but this aerial may be more sensitive to interference and i'm not going to argue with professional advice so I will wait for this heat wave to pass. I have one other question, do you know if roof mounted solar panels would affect a loft mounted aerial receiving a signal? The Tacolneston transmitter is south of me and the solar panels are south facing, when I turned the aerial to face Talcolneston after getting signal break ups from Belmont I couldn't get a signal at all from Talcolneston, my old aerial is outside so I don't know if the solar panels would cause disruption or not as I never took them into account with my intention on facing the loft aerial north west.
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MikeP: Thanks again for your response. I spoke to my mate today who lives locally and it turns out he had the same issues and knows a little about electronics and said it would interfere with the signal. My loft is too small to put the aerial away from the solar panels, I cannot believe I was foolish enough to not take a solar system into consideration, when buying a loft aerial so i'll send it back as it's new and go back to my roof mounted aerial facing Tacolneston which it was receiving fine. Teach me for not doing enough research, lesson learned.
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Dingo: In Syderstone I have had little to no HD channels at all for nearly 24hrs and have now lost all SD channels aswel at time of posting, so currently have no TV signal.
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Dingo: I have had little to no HD channels at all for nearly 24hrs and have now lost all SD channels as well at time of posting, so currently have no TV signal.
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Monday 2 July 2018 11:43PM
Chris Morris: I have exactly the same problem from the same transmitter and have exactly the same aerial bought just the other week.
I'm just 16 miles east of you in syderstone. I couldn't get all the channels I wanted from the Talcolneston transmitter so I bought the Labgear pro wideband, fitted it in the loft facing Belmont, with new cable (wf100) and all new connectors, all good for the first day or so, full signal strength and quality then all of a sudden break ups and no signal especially on all HD channels. So I bought a masthead amplifier and again good after re-scan then signal quality just goes even if strength is above average. Got a signal finder so I know the aerial is facing the right way but these constant signal drop outs have got me baffled too.
I've come close to binning the new aerial to be honest cos I thought it was a dud. Don't know what to just can't maintain constant signal quality especially on 530mhz and 570mhz which are the HD channels the BBC use from Belmont as can't get BBC News HD from Talcolneston which is why I bought the new aerial in the first place, so your not alone in this dilemma.
Anything that can fix this would be a great help or i'm going to have to re wire my old outdoor aerial which is still facing Talcolneston, or call out a pro to put the new aerial outside but that might not fix the issue then that means another call out if that doesn't work.