All posts by Chaz_001
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Where I live in Southwater I get my TV from Midhurst transmitter. Some mux's are output at 20,000 watts and others are at 10,000 watts. When the weather is bad I lose the channels on the mux's on the weaker output. When the final switch to the newer frequencies is complete is there any idea what the output power will be? I understand mux's will be on the 600Mhz range, is this correct?
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Although on "paper" it looks like I should get a great signal it is only with the mux's on the stronger signal that this is the case. Right now the weather is fine and I can get the weaker signal output with a strong signal strength showing. The problem is that our house has some (but not a lot of trees). The aerial is new with new cabling with no water coming in to the system and has been fitted professionally by someone we trust.
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I live in rh13 9xz with aerial pointed to Midhurst.
Ever since the retune on 21st March I am not able to watch any channels on the ArqB mux but other channels
are fine.
My aerial appears to be Wideband with the black bung at the rear.
Any suggestions?
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StevensOnln1: I have tried that but no difference. All other channels are fine and another TV in the house has exactly the same problem. Any chance it could be the aerial at fault? Also, why to the SDN,ArqA and ArqB operate at 10kW and the other muxes at 20kW?
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StevensOnln1: thanks for the explanation regarding power output.
Both Tv's are on the same aerial. Forgot to mention that when the tv''s auto scan for channels on ch33 they more often than not pickup the channels but either the picture is breaking up badly or the signal is too week to display a picture.
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MikeB: I am definitely tuned into Midhurst as Guildford uses different channel numbers.
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Further to my posts a couple of weeks ago I had a professional installer to come round and test things and testing with his own wideband aerial he too had the same issue with not being able to receive channel 33 but other frequencies were fine. If he took the aerial higher he could get channel 33 but lost channel 29! I can't understand how I can simply not receive channel 33 when I could perfectly ok before the retune.
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I notice on DigitalUK's website (using detailed view) for the Midhurst transmitter tomorrow (18th April) there is a reception change being done which won't require a retune (if you haven't got missing channels) as none of the frequencies are being changed but there are minor changes being done to the output for channel 29 (SDN Mux). Not sure if in my case this will help for me (unlikely) but I will check tomorrow.
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I phoned up the Freeview helpline and because they could not figure out why I was able to get channel 29 but 33 and try a couple of other things I got put through to the home support team who are sending out an engineer for free in the next week. Will see what can be found and see where it leads to.
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Wednesday 3 August 2016 12:07AM
Horsham
With the Midhurst Transmitter and where I receive from why do COM4, COM5 and COM6 mux's operate at a lower wattage output compared to the other mux's? We can receive all channels just fine but when it is raining we can loose channels on the lower output and sometimes the HD mux as well.