All posts by Chris.SE
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Ashley: Davem: melvyn mouland: Fred Hotchen :
See my previous 2 posts just now as much of it could apply BUT also applicable to Fred Hotchen -
NOTE ALSO current weather conditions have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and more of the south of the country through Sunday. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
Christopher woodnutt this may also be affecting you but see previous reply.
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barry hardwick: jpaul:
It could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and more of the south of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Jay:
Apart from the Planned Engineering, it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Ron Riordan:
Apart from the Planned Engineering, at the Mendip transmitter, it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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K Brady:
So sorry to hear of your reception problems, but there is Planned Engineering work taking place at the transmitter which can affect your reception BUT in addition to which it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, It's not bad design or just sunny weather or just high pressure, I'm afraid that is not a complete "picture" (sorry pun not intended).
Sometimes these conditions can cause Tropospheric Ducting which is currently affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Amanda Hitchen: Stu:
it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Amanda Hitchen:
See the reply to you at Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy for 21 years
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Caspen:
Apart from possible Engineering, it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Robert Warbrick: Mat:
Apart from the Planned Engineering at Crystal Palace, it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter, or you'll have to repeat try auto-retuning when signals are normal. You may have to try several times as you won't know when that would be.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Monday 9 October 2023 12:07AM
Fred Hotchen
You may or may not have noticed the Planned Engineering post for the week commencing 2/10/23, now on the previous page 2nd from last.
"Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels "
When you are in a weaker signal area, such work could involve using the reserve antenna or operating at reduced power for periods of time which may reduce you signal sufficiently it looks at though you have No signal. Do NOT retune as this may just clear your correct tuning, you'll then have to retune again when signals are normal, possibly several times as you won't know when that might be.
From your comments about reception of the COM muxes and doing a random check in your area, I'd guess that the rods (or squashed Xs) on your aerial are horizontal.
Rowridge transmits both horizontal and vertical polarisation but in HP the COM muxes are 50kW compared to the PSBs 200kW., however in Vertical polarisation they are also 200kW so re-orientating your aerial should significantly improve that reception BUT if you also happen to receive the Local mux, this is HP only, so you'd lose it BUT you aren't predicted to receive it although that doesn't mean you can't.
No faults are been currently reported, so it's the Planned Engineering currently affecting you.