All posts by Neil
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Sorry, forgot to add, that it is an external roof aerial and has an external amp and splitter.
Evenings seem much worse than mornings for the channels I've seen live. e.g. CBeebies was OK this morning, but very blocky yesterday afternoon. But I gather that Thomas (CH5) recordings have failed and I believe they are morning ones.
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Thank you. Yes, I do appreciate that this location is probably not the best. The puzzle is, this is the first time we have had anything more significant that a rare, minor glitch. So I would say it's been working fine for... well I'm rubbish on remembering, but I think over 3 years at least. And of course it would have been much lower power before digital switchover and was fine then. This problem has now gone on for almost 2 week, so is beginning to look permanent.
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Agreed something must have changed, but I really don't know what it could be.
I tried asking one neighbour, but he was unaware you could get 'normal' (i.e. aerial) TV since digital switchover.
I only just realised that jb38's first post had some links to the right, pages I hadn't seen before on ukfreetv. Is this where you got your "obstructed" info from? The house icon seems the cover the terrain view in the closest 2 miles, so I wasn't quite sure if Hannington looked better or not. Realistically I would be pointing at a house somewhere further up the hill. Yes it is a high gain aerial.
I will see if I can ask some other neighbours at some point, or think about getting someone to see if any of the other directions are better.
Many thanks.
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Just to report back on my problems from
"Friday 5 July 2013 5:38PM Newbury"
I finally got a TV engineer round and he turned the aerial to point at Hannington but still got too low db reading at TV end. Then he checked masthead pre-amp and discovered it was dead (well -10db instead of gain).
Really weird thing is it also picks up CP (which is almost 90deg and much further away). The only reason I can think of is that now it has swung round it is very close to our neighbours aerial (not in use I suspect) that points at CP. Anyway, had to manually tune everything and turn off the auto detect feature otherwise the perfectly good channels get replaced by duff ones (grrrr).
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Monday 1 July 2013 11:33AM
For the past week or so we've had had a lot of trouble with Freeview TV. Mostly noticeable as either no signal at all or blocking and pixelation. Definitely happening on BBC 1&2, CBeebies and Ch5, possibly other channels. It seems to vary according to time, but not sure all channels are the same time fluctuations.
We are in Newbury RG14, but don't point at Hannington as we are not far enough up the hill (though everyone on our street points in different directions including CP).
I did check signal strength at one point and it was varying around 10% and quality up to about 40%. It was much, much better than that before last week. The TV is much worse than the HDR, but then the aerial goes to HDR first.