All posts by Phil K
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Reception is now much better (here in Holton Heath) on C24 than it was a week ago, although the quality level still wavers. Must have been the high pressure causing co-channel interference. But I'm wondering whether it's worth changing the polarisation of my aerial to vertical to prevent this in future? Can most aerials have their polarisation changed? And how much is it likely to cost to have this done by an aerial engineer?
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Signal level seems as usual here (Holton Heath, horizontal aerial), but we've lost SDN/COM4. Have tried retuning, including manually on C25. Anyone else having problems?
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Well, we're not getting any Freeview channels (from Rowridge VP) working over here in Holton Heath . Is it the engineering work, hot weather, or a combination of the two? Our reception is usually pretty solid on the PSB muxes and COM6, though the others are patchy. Signal strength is fine, but quality is zero.
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Thanks John. Looks like the engineering work has finished but our signal is still terrible, so it must be the weather causing interference.
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Still terrible reception here in Holton Heath. It was fine up until the week the transmitter engineering work (and heatwave) started. Could the weather still be causing this problem?
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Thanks Jamie. The one thing I didn't mention is that we have a lot of trees in the vicinity.
We have experienced poorer reception in the past due to weather conditions, and possibly trees being in leaf, but never anything as bad as this zero quality on all muxes.
And it went suddenly, just as that engineering work started (and the heatwave), so we assumed it must be that.
Maybe it was just a coincidence and something has gone wrong with our aerial or the cable connecting it to the main TV setup? (The other TVs are fed from this via some sort of distribution system in the loft, as left by the previous owners.)
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Update: we've finally got Freeview reception again. Turns out it was something to do with the masthead amplifier (I didn't even know we had one). I found a Visioin power supply for it in the loft. Upon unplugging it and plugging it back in, the green light came back on and so did our Freeview! Fingers crossed it carries on working. Maybe it just needed a reset?
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Wednesday 14 March 2012 7:52AM
We live at Holton Heath and have previously had decent reception from Rowridge. Since switchover, the new mux on C24 has been okay, but since yesterday afternoon we have had intermittent poor/no reception on this mux (others are fine). Is this something to do with the switchover process?
The signal power is at a constant 76%, but the quality is single digit - yet yesterday evening it was much higher.