All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
David Bensilum:
I suggest you tell Pick themselves, the link is at the top of this page. This website is for helping those with reception difficulties, etc and has no connection with the broadcasters.
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Vlada Babuska:
You are very lucky to be able to receive a Medium Wave transmission from the London area all the way across the continent in Prague. Such transmissions are not intended to be reliably receivable that far away, so fading, etc is to be expected.
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Nikki Pomeroy-Leviens:
An indoor aerial, one in the same room as the TV, is not at all likely to give you any useful signals. You need an aerial mounted externally near the ridge of your roof. What type of aerial depends on your exact location, so please give a full post code (or that of a very nearby public building) so that reception conditions locally can be determined. Doing that will show some small blue boxes below your posts and these will show which transmitter is likely to be the best for you.
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Ian from Pinxton:
One possible alternative that would give you your local; news, etc is to use a satellite system. Knowing the area from when I worked in the East Midland I would expect you should be able to get good satellite reception with a Zone 2 dish, a zone 1 dish would be 'iffy' in rain and snow.
If you put your full post code into this site, you will see 6 small blue boxes which show reception information for your location. That may help identify some causes of the problems.
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Richard Cooper:
Further to that said by StevensOnln1, the 'Croydon' site is the former ITV 405 line VHF transmitter aerial and site. Though it has the capability of UHF transmission, using the 625 line UHF transmitter that replaced the VHF one, it is not regarded as a 'main' transmitter. It is at the top of Sydenham Hill. At the opposite end of the ridge is the main Crystal Palace transmitter site. Originally a 405 line VHF site, that carried the first 625 line UHF BBC2 transmissions and later gained extra transmitter capability when all the then channels (BBC1, BBC2 and ITV) became available in 625 line colour (in November 1969). It is now the main transmitter for the bulk of the London area, but there are blank spots.
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David:
Free to air broadcasting will always have a place as not everywhere in the UK will be able to have FTTP installed at sensible cost. I used to live in a very rural hamlet of 7 houses/farms and there is no cost effective way to deliver FTTP. That is the situation in many rural areas and even some semi-urban areas still cannot have FTTC let alone FTTP!
Almost everyone I ring is on a landline, not a mobile number.
Most cars do not have DAB yet and only newer cars get it. Really they should be having DAB2 fitted. My car is less than 2 years old and does not have DAB capability - and that is not unusual.
Ofcom have been lax in letting the mobile operators have more spectrum than they really need, possibly because of the commercial return demanded by government.
Long may Freeview and Freesat reign.
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Ian:
There are no known problems with the Emley Moor transmitter. As it is a major transmitter serving several million people there would have been an outcry if there was an unrepaired fault.
It is more likely that the trees around you are a possible cause.
In my long experience of satellite installation, it is very, very rare to not be able to install a dish in a suitable location.
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Nick Wallace:
Further to that said by Richard Cooper, you could buy a small DVB-T finder unit. They are available from the likes of Amazon for just a few pounds, see Labgear 27866R DVB-T Signal Strength Finder Freeview HD: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics for an example. There are other makes available from a number of sellers.
The advantage being that you can do the alignment entirely from the vicinity of the aerial, followed by a 'sanity check' by testing on the TV all the channels you want to watch.
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Friday 16 September 2016 10:13AM
David Price:
JB38 says exactly what I would have said. Do NOT try to retune your equipment until at least the warm weather has cooled.