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Below are all of Rob T's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.I live to the east of Southampton and have an aerial engineer attending to sort out my issues on behalf of Freeview on 9/6. My signal is already marginal so I'm intending to ask them to fit a group E aerial to suppliment my group A and use a diplexer. I dont want to compromise on a wide band as I believe it will not pull in as good a signal as I get now for the group A channels.
This web page explains the procedure if anyone is interested.
Aerials
I will report back how it goes....
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MikeB:
Although I am in a notionally good area, I have a huge tree between the house and the transmitter. Also my house doesn't have a chimney so height is also an issue.
As well as a couple of tvs, I also use an item called an HDHomerun network tuner which enables tv via ethernet. This item requires a high quality signal, more than the stand alone tvs.
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Further to my previous post about having my group A aerial replaced by Freeview, here is an update.
A really nice guy arrived with some serious testing equipment. He noted the signal I was receiving with my current aerial and proceeded to replace it with a Triax wide band hi gain. He checked the signal again and noted that although I could now see the missing channels (and they are there and use-able)my siganl on 21 had reduced and 55 and 56 were not good. He carried out a site survey with an aerial on a pole and noted if my aerial was moved to the front of the house, I would get a much better signal (currently the aerial is mounted to the back wall with a cranked pole as I don't have a chimney).
He said his report would say that the signal was unsatisfactory and that he would need to return to re site the aerial with a new bracket, pole and cable into my loft.
So currently I have the missing channels restored (BBC News HD, BBC Four HD, PBS America and perhaps a few I dont care about!) but the signal is not great. And he's coming back to re site the aerial and I wont have to pay apparently!
I have lost a bit of signal on ch 21 but no blockiness noted. Ch 55 and 56 are both at sig strength 60, quality 58, sym quality 100 and useable but I suspect if the weather deteriorated they would soon suffer break up.
Further to follow..
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Saturday 19 May 2018 3:09PM
Tony Whyman:
I saw this too, suddenly this morning BBC News HD and the various other channels that I have lost due to having a group A aerial for Rowridge.
But now the wedding is over, they've all gone again. Was this just for the wedding?
I've got the aerial people (via Freeview complaints) coming on 9/6. I was going to stand them down but no such luck.