All posts by John
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Thank you Briantist. As I have a handy water tower full of mobile phone masts less than 3 hundred metres away from my ampified TV aerial, I might not get much TV reception from Tacolneston by then anyway!
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I don't have any interference problems with 2G & 3G from the nearby masts. I was only concerned about the new 4G stuff as per the article. I assume the 4G signal will overload some if not all of the amplified aerials in the town, most of which point towards the phone masts - that's the direction of the transmitter too! Mux 2 is on channel 59, so will be most likely to have trouble anyway. Wonder what channel the HD Mux will end up on?
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My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+Sunday 27 November 2011 9:10AM
Southwold
I re-tuned my uncle's TV (CM7 4EQ) when Sudbury switched - newish Panasonic TV, Sudbury Tx, Reception Prediction - excellent across the whole range. Mux 1 & 2 perfect (Ch 44 & 41), Mux A, C & D (Ch 49, 54, 63) nothing at all (no HD Rx). I tried various fiddles to no avail. I put it down to the old TV aerial. There may even be an RF filter of some sort as he is close to a now-defunct US air base.
I am in the Tacolneston area . I re-tuned a friend nearby & had exactly the same problem as my uncle. However, it can't be the aerial. She has a new-build house with 4 TVs running off a Tacolneston aerial D.A.. 3 Tvs receive all the muxes, the 4th receives only Muxes 1 & 2. All are modern digital TVs, but the 4th one is a cheap set from M&S! I haven't been able to go & try re-tuning. I can only assume it is the set that's at fault. Could it be anything else?
(CM7 4EQ)
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Thank you for comments.
Solved my friend - I just went round & did a manual tune on missing muxes - everything now there. Must have been some glitch during original re-tune.
As to my Uncle, I realise he has 2 aerials, one Sudbury, one Crystal Palace. His TV people plugged his new TV into C.P. & he watched that, mostly analogue, pre DSO. I moved him to Sudbury when I re-tuned him Next time I'm there I might try tuning missing muxes using C.P. aerial to confirm his TV is ok, though I'm sure it is. I did try manual tuning missing Sudbury muxes & got nothing, so a filtered aerial seems likely.
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I'm in Southwold with my aerial looking at Tacolneston. I could also receive Aldeburgh. When Mobile 4G starts, even with a filter, could there be reception problems on Mux D3&4 on Ch59? (I'm very close to the water tower which is covered in Mobile Tx aerials!) If so, is there a system available whereby I could have 2 aerials pointing to Tacolneston & Aldeburgh, with some sort of aerial combiner mixing the signals so my receivers could be tuned into the strongest?
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Sorry. I've found the answer elsewhere on your excellent website. I would need a channel 36 diplexer.
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The date of May 1st has been given for the next Tacolneston re-tune because of the 4G phone sell-off. What happened to the filters we were all supposed to need & were being supplied by the phone companies? Are we still expected to pay for their installation?
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Monday 6 June 2011 3:41PM
My main transmitter is Tacolneston. This will eventually put out the HD mux on channel 62. What will happen to this when the 800MHz band is sold off?