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Post Code IP33 2HX and right at the top of a hill with clear line to Sudbury and Tacolneston transmitters. I have a high gain wide band yagi high enough to avoid trees aimed at Sudbury (aligned by compass and meter)with high quality cable throughout. Getting intermittent but persistent pixilation on BBC Ch 4 & Ch5. Signal strength consistently 69-71% but qulaity fluctuating between good and poor on a Bush and a Sagem digibox, particularly bad between 6:00 and 7:00pm most nights but at other times too. Never had any problems until switch-over. Neighbours experiencing similar issues. Tried Tacolneston but no better. Any ideas please?
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Thanks for your comments JB38. I hadn't read your reply until this evening but earlier today, with the aerial on Tacolneston, I did a manual retune on standard frequencies only and pulled the aerial plug out except when in the ranges for Tacolneston. So far this seems to have solved the problem.
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Friday 25 November 2011 6:10PM
Bury St. Edmunds
I live in Bury St Edmunds postcode IP33 2HX my house is at the top of a hill 80 ft above sea level with virtually clear line of sight to both Talconeston and Sudbury. Pre switch-over I got a better and more stable picture on Talconeston, with maybe one or two clicks a month, although Sudbury is closer. Your graphs suggested that after switch over the Sudbury signal should be stronger so I turned my aerial back to Sudbury & retuned but experienced occasional pixilations every day. Today my portable aerial signal meter shows a signal strength of 60db/uv from Sudbury whereas on Talconeston I get a signal strength of 70. However when I retuned my Freeview box for Tacolneston I get a very broken and unstable picture on all channels. Is this a case of my set top box automatically tuning to the stronger Sudbury frequencies and rejecting the Tacolneston ones? If so how can I get round this as the Sudbury picture is worse now than Talconeston pre-switch-over.