All posts by MikeP
Below are all of MikeP's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Laine:
Have a look at
Channels at your address | Freeview and give the details they need. That will show you what channels are available in your area.
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Wendy:
The best aerial to have installed is a log-periodic type that will enable you to receive all the available channels for the foreseeable future. That should be mounted externally at or a little above your roof level, on a chimney perhaps, and aimed at the Sandy Heath transmitter. As you haven't given a post code we cannot determine the compass direction it should be aimed at for best reception.
I note from the map on this page that some parts of Milton Keynes are poorly served from Sandy Heath transmitter because of the hills and valleys. Areas such as Bradwell, Broughton and Lathwell are 'hidden' from the transmitter.
Note that there is no such thing as a 'digital aerial', all TV aerials are capable of receiving Freeview TV signals.
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Julie:
A satellite dish does not act like and aerial for Freeview signals. A dish is used to feed a satellite receiver and is used for Sky and/or Freesat reception. To receive Freeview from a terrestrial (ground mounted) transmitter you will be using an aerial of a conventional yagi or log-periodic pattern. If you live in a multi-occupancy building (flats, etc), you are likely to be able to use a communal aerial.
To help us to help you further we would need to know your poast code and what equipment you are using.
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Martin Baines:
Sadly, not everyone has a TV that can be re-configured by a software update, so they would need to have their equipment replaced. Further, not everyone has access top an internet connection and not everyone who have a connection get sufficient speed for it to be useful for on-line TV services, so they will not be able to watch TV if it is opn-line only.
That is why it will be expensive for some who may well be unwilling to have that forced upon them. 21st Century thing must include consideration of all the possibilities, good and bad. My argument holds true for many and is based on technical knowledge plus experience with a great many customers, young and old.
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Jane:
Your friends are not using Freeview! That is transmitted from ground-based stations all within the UK and the signals barely reach much beyond Calais! They could perhaps be using Freesat or possibly Sky, with a potential problem over obtaining a legal viewing card as they are restricted to UK addresses only. There are some channels available via the internet and there are the 'catch up' services such as the BBC iPlayer, etc.
You would be best asking your friends exactly what equipment they use and what British TV services they have available.
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Dion Stallwood:
Looking at the coverage map provided at Freeview reception at DT11+ 0DQ it would appear that you are right on the edge of the area served by either of the Rowridge services, you may even be hidden from the signals by a hill 2-3 km out from your home. For reception from Rowridge your aerial would be aimed at 103 degrees compass bearing. Is that the direction your aerial is aimed?
The problems you report are oftem caused by too strong signal, but at your distance from Rowridge and with a hill in front of you that is unlikely to be the cause.
Please could you tell us what equipment is being used and where your aerial is pointing as well as whather the cross rods, not the support beam, are veertical of horizontal. Then we contributors will try to help further.
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Briantist:
Please also see my entry about why many people would have to replace their equipment, especially if is more than a couple of years old as they don't have the facility to have a conditional access system added.
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Amanda Akrigg :
See the post from Briantist above yours. Heart TV now requires an HD capable receiver (not just an 'HD ready' type).
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John Cook:
If you look at the boxes inserted below your post and open the 'digitaluk trade' one iot will give you the details of the recommended transmitter. In your case it is indeed Presely and the aim angle for your aerial is 36 degrees east of north.
Hope that helps?
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Thursday 27 August 2015 8:20AM
Jason Bray:
As your roof is made of metal, or metalised, sheeting TV signals will not pass through. So fitting an aerial inside the loft will get no signal, or be so attenuated as to be unusable. RF signals, like radio and TV, do not pass through metals. There is an article on Faraday cage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that explains why your idea would not work.