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Below are all of Stephen's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Many thanks, Dave, for your swift and well-researched reply. I do indeed have a Wales-pointing aerial. This is now just a throwback to the analogue days so, if it's compromising my Winter Hill reception, it will have to go.
What I still don't understand is why reception varies so much. After last night's poor show, I'm just home from work and found that channels 49 and 50 are back up to 44% and 100% on signal strength and quality respectively and perfectly watchable.
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Thanks again, Dave. It would seem that redirecting the MyP aerial towards Winter Hill would be the best solution: turns it away from interfering with my preferred transmitter and provides some degree of future-proofing should channel changes, as you suggest, occur. Could be a win-win :-)
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When, oh when, oh when?
I get an almost perfect quality of service on the HD channels but lose service completely at times on the SD, i.e.CH 1, BBC1 North West. My only reason for even visiting CH 1 is for local news, weather and features, so I get the double insult of having to change channels, then finding no signal when I get there.
As said, if ITV don't have a problem with local servicing on HD, then why is it seemingly impossible for the BBC to do the same?
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Dave Lindsay: I have to say that I don't appreciate being called an "armchair moaner" just for posing a question that I'm sure has occurred to many other licence-paying viewers.
From memory, doesn't the splash screen broadcast at the times of regional variation say something a5bout "not yet available in your area", which would clearly imply that there is promise of future availability? Doesn't that also imply that there is currently at least one area that does receive its bespoke variation?
Happy new year to all!
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Tuesday 2 July 2013 11:48PM
Chorley
Ever since I bought my Sony Freeview HD TV in January 2011 I have enjoyed perfect picture and audio on all services, both SD and HD. Within the last month this has changed.
The HD services are still perfect but BBC 1 NW (which I only watch for the local news) on Ch 50 is now problematic: one day all is fine; then the next there is no service; the following day all is fine again and the next - who knows? Sometimes reception is passable but there are picture and audio breaks; sometimes there is nothing at all.
I've followed the resetting/retuning procedure several times but the problem just returns, so I'm assuming that it isn't a tuning problem. In fact, I'm certain because all my other Freeview tuners (Humax PVR and no-name STB) are suffering in the same manner.
I'm writing this today because it's a bad day and I'm getting seriously fed up!
For the record, signal strength and quality for the various channels, obtained from the Humax HDR-FOX T2 PVR, are as follows:
Ch. 50: 38%; 10%
Ch. 59: 55-66% (variable); 100%
Ch. 54: 55%; 100%
Ch. 58: 55%; 100%
Ch. 49: 38%; 10%
Ch. 55: 55-66% (variable); 100%
So something amiss with 49 and 50 alone.
Transmitter is Winter Hill, of course.
Any suggestions, please?