All posts by Calgacas
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Briantist - the engineering work IS to move mux away from the 800Mhz band assigned to 4G/LTE for deployment in early 2013.
That is the reason for the ongoing reduced power levels.
Anyway, last post here for me as I'm on Freesat now. I note that currently in LE3 the following MUX are unavailable regardless of what aerial/set top box/amplifier you have :
PSB1; PSB3; COM5 and COM6.
Not a lot left after that and frankly since its all commercial TV I see zero reason why anyone in LE3 on DVB-T should pay the BBC tax when they can't receive ANY BBC channels for 4 days out of 7 (if they're lucky).
Anyway best of luck to you all, if you use Waltham you will most certainly need it.
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Briantist - my problems are local to the extent that all the local antenna installers know there's an issue with Waltham for NW Leicester/Leics and has been since the last week of October. I know this as I asked them ;-)
The BBC also know about the problem - they've had enough complaints from people in this area. They were in fact the people who said "point the aerial at Sutton Coldfield" as Waltham has ongoing work.
I had zero problems until the engineering works. ZERO. The last 7 weeks have been appalling.
16 minutes? Heh pull the other one, power meter connected directly to aerial tells a different story entirely.
Anyway keep up the good work, this is a useful site for people with problems.
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Monday 3 December 2012 12:02PM
I have exactly the same problems (at the same times) as John Sands and I'm in LE3.
What's more pretty much everyone on the street has the same problems and its not a minor issue. These "engineering works" have been causing several mux to disappear completely from scans for days at a time for well over a month now.
That's an unacceptable level of disruption IMHO. Telling people (as one guy on the street has been told) to point the aerial at Sutton Coldfield is no answer at all as you lose all your local programming.
No point in talking about aerials or amps - the source is clearly at the Tx and its clearly ongoing work to deal with 4G/LTE interference on C61 (and arguably all the way down to C56).
Just so we're clear here, there are people around this area with large aerials (bought during the analogue+digital period) who now can't receive mux that they could prior to analogue switchover. That's the effect of these "engineering works".
If this is what its like with reduced signal power then a large chunk of Leicester is going to be stuffed when 4G/LTE arrives anyway and a £10 filter isn't going to help.
So its goodbye to DVB-T for me - in retrospect its been an ongoing trainwreck in the UK and shows few signs of improving. I just wish someone would pay me the cash spent on DVB-T freeview stuff as its been a waste of money.