All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
John Watson:
I doubt you'll even be taken seriously. Indeed the suggestion is more likely to be that you pay more tax so that there can be investment in things that may help reduce the effects that make climate change more severe!
Unfortunately you live in a location that has to be served by a relay transmitter because of the terrain (last time I checked Scotland was quite hilly in places!). The services you don't get are those run by commercial operators (not funded by the licence fee). They do not consider it worth the investment in transmission equipment because of the small population served by the transmitter.
If you want more services then consider Freesat - your set may have a built in Freesat tuner so all you'd need is Dish and LNB.
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Steve:
Without a full postcode we can't see what predicted reception is at your location. The area in general shouldn't normally have any problems with reception from Heathfield.
How long have you been having this problem?
There's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It's been around several days and it's may continue on and off for a day or two more.
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Andy Hurley:
Well I've been posting this on some other transmitter pages as people have been raising problems.
There's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's may continue on and off for a day or two more.
Seema Willey:
Quite correct, it is temperature inversion tyoe issues as commented above :)
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Chris:
We need a full postcode to look at your predicted reception. You may not live in an ideal location, the fact that you have a BT box has no bearing on the matter. As per the post prior to yours there's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's may continue on and off for a day or two more.
Knowing your predicted reception, we might be able to suggest something to help.
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Elizabeth Mcpherson:
It's most likely to be the "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference as already mentioned, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It may continue on and off for a day or two more.
You're advised not to retune whilst you've lost signals or they are severely pixellated as it may clear the correct tuning and you'd have to repeat a retune when conditions stabilise.
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NOLEEN LOGUE:
Without a full postcode we can't be absolutely certain which transmitter(s) you can/may receive. If it is Castlederg, then there are no fault reports except there's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
The BBC have also been reporting this several times on and off for your transmitter.
It may continue on and off for a day or two more.
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YZ:
Yes, a lot of people all around the country have been suffering from similar issues. Unfortunately climate change is likely to make this sort of event more common.
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Bruce Tearle:
Yes it was "atmospherics" there's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It may continue on and off for a day or two more.
Pick moved to LCN34 and Sky Arts has been put at LCN11, you may need to manually retune the ArqA/COM5 multiplex if you aren't seeing the change, UHF C33 at Mendip.
Neil Chilton:
Weather related issues, see comment above.
Also note that predicted reception at your location for COMs 4-6 is variable from Mendip.
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Sunday 20 September 2020 12:07AM
jimmy:
John Watson:
There's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's likely to continue on and off for a day or two more.
The BBC are even reporting reception from this transmitter being disrupted by these atmospheric conditions -
From 9:02pm on 18th Sep 2020 to 2:29am on 19th Sep 2020 Weather conditions may be affecting your reception