All posts by Paul Dursley
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Steve Donaldson:
Evening.
I have been following the discourse on aerial types, splitters, diplexers and insertion losses etc and I like to think I have genuinely been educated within this subject area so thank you for that.
Where my TV reception is at currently (excellent on Backwell transmitter and good to very good on Wenvoe) I am really happy with it. So I'm getting my West of England content in preference to Wales content and also getting the selection COMs channels from Wenvoe which give me access to some nationality 'flavourless' commercial channels which aren't available from the Backwell transmitter.
In short this is where I want to be.
With reference to potential water ingress with the original aerial fitment there is some decent rain due here tomorrow so there will be an opportunity to see if we suffer any signal degradation through the afternoon/evening. It has been dry for the last few days so we should get a positive indication one way or the other.
My eBay splitter should be turning up by midweek so I can also do a test for insertion loss vs signal strength/quality later in the week.
Assuming no signal degradation due to water ingress I would suggest given that the relative lack of sophistication of my aerial installation seems to support my viewing tastes with the availability of transmitted channels from Backwell and Wenvoe I would argue that less, if not more, is at least enough in this case.
Worst case scenario would be re installation of current aerial or new low tech Yagi type installation.
I've copied this to Chris
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Sunday 14 April 2024 9:45AM
Steve Donaldson:
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your very thorough analysis of the signal transmission and reception between the Mendip and Backwell antenna. The analysis does fit my reported TV reception (or not, initially) symptoms over the past week or so from the Backwell transmitter and in conjunction with engineering works at Mendip.
The ineffective influence of the filter only bolsters the conclusion of your analysis.
You mention reporting the issue of reception by Backwell of the Mendip signal to the BBC - who would be responsible for making that report?
If it's me as a 'customer' of the BBC I will quite happily report this as an issue. Presumably there is no problem with referencing our discourse over the past week or so?
Once again thank you for assisstance with my reception problem.