I am served by Darvel and did the retune today. I have lost com7 which I see is the lowest powermultiplex (7.5kW) moved from channel 31 to 55. I have an xbeam plus preamp in the attic. Assume it's a group A antenna and I see from the engineering info here that a new group T antenna is required. I assume this is the problem.
But the big question is why has this not been explained to the public in advance? I know many other Transmitter areas moved to wide band antennae at the digital switch over. May be wrong but I think Darvel remained on group A.
If I want BBCnews24HD 4+1HD etc. again I'll have to get a new antenna and so will all the other people in my area that have this problem.
Tried calling the Freeview helpline and they knew nothing about this antenna group change.
Wednesday 5 September 2018 6:16PM
I am served by Darvel and did the retune today. I have lost com7 which I see is the lowest power multiplex (7.5kW) moved from channel 31 to 55. I have an xbeam plus preamp in the attic. Assume it's a group A antenna and I see from the engineering info here that a new group T antenna is required. I assume this is the problem.
But the big question is why has this not been explained to the public in advance? I know many other Transmitter areas moved to wide band antennae at the digital switch over. May be wrong but I think Darvel remained on group A.
If I want BBCnews24HD 4+1HD etc. again I'll have to get a new antenna and so will all the other people in my area that have this problem.
Tried calling the Freeview helpline and they knew nothing about this antenna group change.
Not impressed.