All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Hi John,
As just mentioned on the Bilsdale page, the COM7 you have there is Emley Moor. As predicted you aren't getting C55 & C56 from Bilsdale, signal too poor.
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Paul :
Without a full postcode we can't check what your predicted reception is likely to be.
Do you have a Wideband aerial?
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Paul :
Hi, I was just about to post, your predicted reception from Bilsdale is good for the 6 main muxes, but could be variable for COMs 7&8.
As you may have noticed some of the posts since yours where they weren't getting COMs 7&8 as well. It's quite likely as suggested by Fred, that they weren't broadcasting until all the Relays which were being changed today as well, had cleared their use of 55&56 for other multiplexes (there was a lot of them).
Glad you are OK now. Just to add, your reception (& others) of COMs 7&8 won't have been helped by the fact that they are now SFNs (single frequency networks where other transmitters use the same channels for COMs 7&8) but power for these two at Bilsdale has been increased from 18kW to 27kW.
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Fred :
You are correct as I commented to Paul about possible interference from other transmitters due to COMs 7&8 now being SFNs. Whilst the power at Bilsdale has been upped, the power for COMs 7&8 at Pontop Pike has been reduced from 33/34kW to 19kW. However the 6 main muxes at Pontop Pike should all be now at 100kW, COMs4-6 having been upped from 50kW.
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4wd:
Whilst information on some transmitter pages is wrong, the channels and power for the 6 main muxes here is correct. The PSBs are on 100kW & COMs 4-6 on 50kW. COMs 7&8 as mentioned to Paul now 27kW, also the Local mux on C30 was being upped from 5 to 7kW.
I would hope that by now, your reception should be back to normal as both Freeview and the BBC are reporting no faults.
I assume you have a Wideband Aerial?
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Simon Moss:
There is Planned Engineering this week at Tacolneston with "Possible weak signal". So this is probably the problem you are seeing.
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Tracy:
A lot of the Sony channels were moved by Sony to Local multiplexes back in the summer. If you aren't getting the Bristol TV channel at LCN7 then you can't be receiving the Local multiplex. You could try a manual retune on UHF30 to see if you can pick it up, but it's not available in all areas.
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John:
In case you don't read the Bilsdale page soon, try 55&56 from there again. It looks as though they may still have been off-air until quite late.
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4wd:
Hmm, that's not good. My personal experience with Arqiva is that they don't readily admit to problems, it's possible the work is still ongoing if things haven't gone smoothly, but it would be a good idea to look at your predicted reception, but we need a full postcode for that.
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Wednesday 13 November 2019 2:00PM
John:
As mentioned in my last post to you on Emley Moor "Don't forget that there's a good chance you'll lose COM8 from Bilsdale on the 13th when it moves to UHF56 according to the predicted reception, and COM7 moving to 55 is predicted to get flakey."
The COM7 you've got there on C32 is from Emley, the Bilsdale one was C31, now C55 not being received.