All posts by Mark Fletcher
Below are all of Mark Fletcher's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Max Richardson,Middlewich.If you believe your aerial is pointed towards Winter Hill,then the polarisation of your aerial will be horizontal.If on the other hand your aerial is polarised vertically then it will be facing a nearby relay mast as such.If also your aerial is horizontally polarised as you stated to believe check the local news bulletins,if your news bulletins are both BBC North West tonight and ITV1 Granada Reports as well as Channel 4 being on programme channel No 4 on your device's EPG guide then it is facing Winter Hill.If on the other hand your horizontally polarised aerial picks up news bulletins from both BBC Wales and ITV1 Wales as well as S4C on programme channel 4 (Channel 4 on programme channel 8 in this case),then your aerial is facing Moel-Y-Parc transmitter instead.
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Landlubber Dave,Clacton on Sea.Yes is the answer to the question you asked at the end of your text.The inversion effect was the most likely cause !
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Tony White.London,SE2 0RG.If the antenna is polarised vertically,it most probably is pointing towards Woolwich relay which only transmits the BBCA,D3+4 and BBCB (HD) the public service multiplexes using a group C/D aerial.
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Xander.According to my freeview box,Price-Drop TV is still broadcasting on programme channel No 37 from Emley Moor.I dont know about Winter Hill and Belmont at present,but i do know as far as Emley Moor is concerned it is beaming in front of me as i am texting this reply to you !
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Confirmed to my above text,Price Drop TV is also still broadcasting on programme channels No 37 from both Belmont and Winter Hill transmitters.Both performed separately via deleting my normal programme channel set up in my locality !
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Thanks Briantist.I though that exactly too.Xander's seven wee texts within eight minutes from first to last/seventh did'nt add up.He probably is a spammer himself,hopefully he deserves to be banned on this very useful site anyway.
By the way only nine main transmitters (i think it is ?) in the UK are still to switch off analogue and lower powered pre-digital signals,and switch on higher powered post-digital signals.Come 0020 hours Wednesday 30 May 2012 most likely after the programme "She-Wolves:England's Early Queens" finishes its broadcast on BBC2,the analogue BBC2 from Heathfield will be forever switched off along with the lower powered digital Mux1 multiplex at the same time and some minutes later the new high powered BBCA multiplex will launch on frequency 52,the start of DSO1 at Heathfield.
Oddly enough Heathfield is the last main transmitter to complete DSO on its own.The others coming up,Bluebell Hill and Dover together simultaneously are the last to complete DSO as a duo (the restrictions at Sudbury lifted on Wednesday 27 June 2012),while Chatton,Pontop Pike and Bilsdale (as a trio) in North-East England come September 2012,and the last trio in Northern Ireland/Ulster come October 2012 Brougher Mountain,Divis and Limavady will ultimately complete DSO here in the UK.
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Max Richardson,Middlewich.
I would look up Freeview reception has changed?
There are so many possibilities,but i can confirm that in my location i did a test just recently and apart from BBCB (HD) on frequency 54 (my set-top box is non-HD,i did pick up ArqB on frequency 55,SDN on frequency 58,D3+4 on frequency 59,ArqA on frequency 61 and BBCA on frequency 62 all from Winter Hill with and without signal amplification as such.
Difficult for me to answer your question about why your freeview digital reception from Winter Hill is poor in your locality with regular pixellation on most nights you described which now culminates in no signal for the last four days or so but i reiterate if you look up Freeview Reception Has Changed there are many possibilities.
One other option you could consider is Freesat,if you find digital freeview TV signals from Winter Hill troublesome,either that or change the terrestrial aerial to either Moel-Y-Parc,The Wrekin or a nearby local relay if this suffices or barring these then its a case of making do with what you have got.
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Monday 28 May 2012 8:30AM
Halifax
Lee,Sheringham.Sorry,correction to my above post.I was meant to mention look up Inversion Effect instead of Single Frequency Interference but the sunshine and the atmospheric conditions in my locality playing up,ie losing most of my Belmont transmissions yet currently picking up Waltham signals (temporarily) caused me to input the incorrect information.Apologises for my wee error.