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KMJ,Derby, Thank you - I think you have given me an answer. Here in Herne Bay I have previously got a good analogue signal from Sudbury and Crystal Palace as well as my main transmitter at Dover. Tacolneston only came in occasionally with the weather!
Looking at the channels now used at Tacolneston I can see that as well as CH50 which caused me problems last week, it now also uses CH55 and CH59 (all three channels also in use at Dover).The muxes on CH55 and CH59 have been poorer here after switch over than when on the former low power channels. I guess I'm getting some signal from Tacolneston on the back end of my aerial. I didn't think digital signals would interfere with each other, but 55 & 59 are low power from Dover and very high from Tacolneston so maybe that is my problem?
Thank goodness I also have Sky and Freesat!!
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Monday 30 July 2012 2:36PM
Herne Bay
Here in Herne Bay we lost mux BBCa on Ch50 for a while at the end of last week. I'm sure it was the strange weather conditions - we had a small FM RSL radio station in the area last week, Red Sands Radio, and they commented on reception reports from far and wide during the same period. Normally CH50 is the strongest here. Before switch over a strong analogue signal bouncing in from elsewhere would often swamp our digital mux on the same channel - I was a bit surprised to loose a powerful mux AFTER switch over!
Strangely, on one TV only, I have had problems with the mux on CH59 since switch over. After the problems last week that mux is now coming in fine! Are the engineers still tinkering - or will it go again? Time will tell.