All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
MikeP: I would have thought not only a "strongly worded communication to Ofcom" but copying it to Arqiva as well as I would have expected them to have been involved somewhere along the line, not only with advice on channel allocation, but provision of the transmitter.
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StevensOnln1: Whilst you are correct that OFCOM are ultimately responsible for frequency allocations, they take advice from Arqiva (and others). I'm afraid you have absolutely no idea how they will respond to complaints about the interference by the overlapping coverage and they certainly may not be aware of the extent of the problems it's creating.
One thing is certain, without affected viewers making complaints, nothing will happen. Arqiva may also not be aware of the extent of the issue and may well decide to take a look at the problem.
So not only do I disagree with you, but I advise people who are affected to make written complaints as I suggested.
Further down the line, if OFCOM are failing to respond to the issue, then writing to one's MP and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport would be a line of action.
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AJ: you might be picking up the Kidderminster transmitter which is Freeview Light rather than Bromsgrove which has 6 main muxes - it doesn't have COM7 & 8 though. At your old address you might have been getting the Sutton Coldfield transmitter which has all the muxes (including a local).
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Brian Stanley: You are quite correct. According to Coverage Checker - Detailed View it seems only the BBCA mux has moved (to C32). Selkirk changes otherwise appear to be listed for July -December 2019 according to Ofcom announces 700 MHz clearance schedule 2017-20 despite a post there saying it's "being done" !!
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Martin Rosen: You (and other viewers) may also find the following pages useful for future reference -
Digital UK | Freeview TV guide update
Support | Freeview
This page is also useful - Digital UK | Planned engineering works
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Rob: (& others). You may care to read the information here - Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial about Group T aerials (also available on other sites). Note the comments about gain at the high end. It's a case of check your own circumstances as far as signal strength is concerned.
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Miss J Neil: To be clear, there have been no Transmitter changes in your area yet, nor should there be this year.
It depends on your postcode as to which transmitter will give you the best signal as your village is borderline for some of the transmitters (none of which are just BBC by the way - all services come from one transmitter these days - on different multiplexes - UHF channels). You are definitely well outside the official service area for the Little Eaton transmitter roughly NE of you (which is in any case only Freeview Light - only the main BBC & Independent TV channels).
However you are most likely to get a good signal from the main Waltham transmitter roughly ESE of you, (that gives you BBC East Midlands Today news based in Nottingham) or you may also get a good signal from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter roughly SW of you (that gives you BBC Midlands Today - West Midlands based in Birmingham). Which News programmes had you been receiving?
You are borderline reception from the Derby Freeview Light transmitter (East Midlands news) almost SSE of you and unlikely to get a reliable signal from it, nor from the Nottingham Light transmitter (almost ENE of you).
Are the rods on you aerial in a vertical or horizontal position?
Your postcode will tell which is most likely to give best reception. You can also put it in the checker at Digital UK | About the coverage checker (tick the Detailed view box as well).
As MikeB has suggested you may have a fault on your installation or equipment, or the other possibility is the set has retuned and is tuned to the wrong transmitter - you will need to look at the detailed settings on you TV to see which UHF channels (and hence multiplexes) it is picking up.
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Ian Davies: Perhaps if you were clearer you might get more constructive comment. On which aerial did you notice this "change" in signal? You've just mentioned an outdoor Mendip aerial the implication of which is you have an indoor one as well, and there's also this Stockland Hill aerial. Are all the aerials "grouped" or are they wideband? Are the aerials coupled at any point before being fed to the TV(s)?
In any event, there has been no change to the local Bristol Mux. I'm 40 miles N of Mendip and getting it on 74% signal 100% quality as I usually do.
I do get occasional variations in strength when propagation changes. I suggest that it was such an event that was enabling you to get the mux of the back of your Stockland Hill aerial, recent weather pattern changes would usually cause some change in propagation.
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Tuesday 6 June 2017 5:23AM
Jane crabb: Just to be clear, are you really trying to pick up signals from the Mendip Transmitter? - according to your postcode it's the furthest transmitter from you! and you addressed your previous post to Charles Stuart and I don't see a recent post from him on this board.
But in any event, any box that has an RF output (in your case a Sky box) can produce interfering signals at various channels above the one to which it is set, so I would not use C38 as some multiplexes you want to receive are above it. I would go for C62 and above as they are no longer used by Freeview. The only potential issue I see with that is if you have a 4G phone that uses the same band of frequencies it might affect your phone signal.