All posts by John Haigh
Below are all of John Haigh's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.I appreciate your trouble in explaining all this, Mike.
It looks like I was fooled by the weather into thinking things had been improved by the switchover, when in fact they are substantially worse for us. At least we had all the BBC services before, one way or another, whereas we now only have access to the two HD channels on appropriate equipment. Ironic when you look at where the licence fee goes.
I obviously don't understand what you mean by "commercial multiplexes" as the RH mux which carries ITV1 etc is shown above as being at 20Kw. Not that this is a clear factor in my problem, as the BBC mux is at 20Kw also.
Yes there is a (heavily wooded) hill between my house and the transmitter. I am told I have the best antenna possible, but I am going to look into having it raised higher, though no doubt there will be a good reason why not.
It seems I am going to stay frustrated, then.
Thanks again for your help.
John
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To which learned explanation, I can only respond, "Wow"!
Thanks for going to so much trouble to increase my understanding.
I had some success with a signal booster last night (the first time in my experience that one of these has actually made any difference) so am going to monitor this over the next few days to see whether it's worth buying one for each tv.
All the best.
John
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Monday 2 May 2011 9:58PM
Ledbury
It's very frustrating: after years of snowy anogue and a handful of digital channels at this admittedly marginal postcode for Ridge Hill, HR8 1RR, on 20th April we had a full suite of digital channels, but on 28th April, we started to lose them and now don't have BBC1, 2, 3 or 4 any more, for example. Is this the inversion layer effect in action (although I thought it didn't affect digital)? I am pretty sure that on 20th April some RH muxs were at 20000 watts and the rest at 15000: now the ones that aren't at 20000 are only at 10000. Are they fiddling about to.see if anyone complains, and if do, how do I complain? Thanks for any advice. John