All posts by Richard
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Hi jb38,
I'm sorry if I confused anyone here - I was confused myself as to what was going on to be honest. I only used the Freeview channel 22 as an example because that was the one my wife said she could not watch after the new Philips box was tuned. Scientifically not the best one to pick I guess. She said she could watch it OK when she switched back to the Freeview TV. This is what prompted my initial query as to why this should be with both Freeview TV and Freeview external box on the same antenna (and as I thought, on the same UHF channel). However it seems to have been down to my misinterpretation of what was actually happening. When I subsequently forced the Philips Freeview box into a retune, I then saw the two 'Central Scotland' options and it was asking me to chose one or the other. The first time I had tuned the Philips box I did see this option but just thought nothing of it and chose the first one. This was not the same as the TV was tuned to. Hence the subsequent problems and queries from myself. However, I think I've now taken enough of your time up and will thank you for all the help and direction I have had. It can only therefore be that the Philps box is actually receiving the Darvel transmissions off the side of the antenna and reporting it as a option to the main Blackhill signal itself. I am still puzzled why the Phiilips box did this - and not the TV when it was retuned.
Thank you again.
Regards,
Richard
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Hello David,
That's an interesting one. Temperature inversion sometimes causes strange signal paths especially across water. UTV on Black Mountain is SW of you and almost off the back of your antenna more or less if you are pointed at Darvel so shouldn't be giving you any problems. Dusk (when the sun dips below the horizon and the temperature drops) could be causing some momentary ducting with temperature inversion - but you would need the experts to respond to that one. I'm not so sure if that would be the cause to be honest. Especially as it only started two weeks ago. I'd be interested to see what Mike, Brian or jb38 have to say about that one.
Regards,
Richard
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Friday 10 June 2011 7:07PM
Erskine
Hi Strathearn and Mike.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know about the Whitelees Wind Farm issue - but the Darvel signal here is not good - I tried moving the TV antenna around to face Darvel and retuned the TV. It didn't pick any usable signal up !! Which totally surprised me. So I opted for Blackhill and I think it will obviously be even better after 22nd June when the power is upped. But right now from Blackhill it is entirely OK.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Richard