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It seems Thats Berkshire, now called That's Thames Valley (Berkshire) launched today. Last night I found I could copy London Live again although heavily pixellated, maybe they did some changes before the launch? UKFree seem to be way way behind in documenting all the local channels and multiplexers - London Live (Crystal Palace) and That's Thames Valley (Hannington) both use UHF 29.
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I have a single aerial on Crystal Palace, but here in Bracknell Hannington is more or less off the back of it and the front to back ratio is insufficient to reduce it enough. I can occasionally get a watchable picture from London Live, most of the time it is full strength but zero quality. Never ever seen That's Thames Valley although I get most of the other Hannington multiplexes.
There has been absolutely no coverage of the new channel in our local press, it may as well not exist.
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Sorry MikeP both Bracknell and Reading are both well in the service areas of both Hannington and Crystal Palace (including London Live and That's Thames Valley local multiplexes). London Live has been blocked ever since the Hannington local multiplex was turned on in February, nothing whatsoever to do with weather related tropospheric propagation.
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Here in Bracknell Crystal Palace is slightly south of east, Hannington slightly south of west, more or less opposite directions. I have a high gain group A antenna on Crystal Palace installed by a local installer a couple of years ago. Hannington is bang in one of the rear lobes. Crystal Palace and Hannington are more or less equal strength here, half the houses have antennas on one, half on the other, take your pick. To have both local multiplexes on UHF29 is just crazy.
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Tuesday 7 March 2017 8:09PM
I used to get an excellent signal from London Live on ch29 here in Bracknell with a group A aerial pointed at Crystal Palace. But when the new Hanningon multiplex came on air in early February I totally lost it. Doing a manual tune on that channel shows no signal, presumably the Hannington one is sufficiently strong off the side of the aerial to totally wipe out the Crystal Palace signal. Looks like a bad idea to have both on the same channel..