All posts by Algernon
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+ Digital UK - Coverage checker is telling
me that there is yet another retune in December.
anyone know what this is for?
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Go to:-
Digital UK - Coverage checker
put in your post code and house name and it gives
details of the likely transmitters, my nearest being Oxford. Within the list of channels it gives 2 dates
"today's date" and Dec 2013. Changes being shown from December, basically it tells me my signals will get worse!
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OFCOM are conducting a Spectrum management strategy called:-
Ofcoms approach to and priorities for spectrum management over the next ten years Consultation
Publication date: 2 October 2013
Amongst many suggestions they want to move DTV to new frequencies....YES move it all!
I have responded to their survey and I recommend everyone here does so as well.
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Thanks to all for the relevant info. I have tried contacting Digital TV and Arquiver all to no avail.
I have now asked my MP to ask Arquiver and OFCOM why Oxford has such poor and unacceptable transmissions, pointing out that the advertisers could be upset that very few people are seeing their ads after they have paid so much money!
If we get no better transmissions I shall write to the newspapers to get people to stop paying their license fees.
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Thank you for the offer of further help. My postcode is GL54 4EB, my house is 752 feet above sea level and the aerial is 30 feet higher, on the roof. I have been through the routine of line of sight and there is nothing in the way, I have direct line of sight to the Oxford transmitter. I have now decided to give up and this week I am having a dish installed on which I shall watch FREESAT. Further email exchanges with ARQUIVER have resulted in "There is nothing wrong with our transmitter" which only proves what a shambles FREEVIEW has become.
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Well Michael, mine and others reception is awful. More than half of the programmes transmitted are at half power and they are the ones that fail first but recently we have had BBC 1 failing as well. Yes it is weather related but why can't Arquiver up the power to overcome the continued failures? You say no one else has a problem, well read ALL of the preceding posts, they ALL refer to Oxford. FREEVIEW doesn't work, it is awful and I note that OFCOM want to move it all to new frequencies thus requiring everyone to get a new aerial with even more retuning. Michael, it is a shambles.
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Gentlemen, as I sit here drinking a glass of white wine I wonder if the current problem with OXFORD is that the transmitter is operating in accordance with its specification. In which case the spec is wrong. The messages on this list confirm the problems and I now doubt they will ever be resolved.
DTV is a failure. As for my aerials they are only 3 years old and every other house in my village has had the same problems this last month.
As I said previously I am moving over to FREESAT so Oxford will be just a bad dream.
Have you all commented on the OFCOM strategy document? See my comment dated 8 October.
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Mike B.
My problem all along has been the failure of Freeview due to weather. This year has been awful.
The transmissions do not provide reception of all programmes, to all viewers, all of the time, so I have moved to FREESAT. It is brilliant. Plus there are a host of additional channels available free.
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Grace: Hello from Gloucestershire. I had Freeview and I live 800 feet above sea level.
The signal from the Oxford transmitter was appalling. Whenever the sun shines the
pictures disappear so I changed to FREESAT. Yes you need a dish and a freesat box.
The dish will cost about £150 and the box is £50 BUT the reception is brilliant on all channels (including radio). When the new BBC HD channels started they all appeared automatically on FREESAT, no retuning needed either.
I would recommend you seriously consider Freesat.
A.Black.
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Tuesday 24 September 2013 9:27AM
Once again Freeview has failed due to a bit of fog.
Last evening all channels were off for most of the time
even BBC1, as for 10 and 38 they are still off this morning.
Will we have to suffer this for ever? Can't they increase the transmitter power to overcome this failure. Prior to the full introduction of digital we were promised weather related interference would be ended!