All posts by Mike Foster
Below are all of Mike Foster's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Adam B.
Thanks very much,it does help,beginning to think it will never happen!
Mike Foster
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I am in ST7 4UB and get freeview from the Wrekin,including HD, although on the map above we are in about the weakest possible area.Most channels are good but we loose those on ARQ A from time to time.
Whilst there are trees behind the house these do not affect the other channels except in very high winds when some other channels break up a bit. Is the complete loss of reception due to the specification of ARQ A rather than my aerial reception? From the info above it looks very little different from ARQ B. (We can watch internet TV now but it is inconvenient and slow changing channels and we can't avoid the Ads!)
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HI Steve P, We are in a row of bungalows,we have a rooftop aerial but it is not boosted. Next door gets the Wrekin with a boosted aerial, next door but one points to Fenton, but our aerial man could not get anything from Fenton.There is just one street of 24 houses in the postcode.The annoying thing is that we had all the freeview stations about five years ago(when the aerial was put up) but reception has just got worse rather than better.I suppose we have got to have the aerial man back!Thanks for your reply.
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Do not forget that 4G starting soon in 20 cities and towns realTuesday 24 September 2013 8:55AM
Stoke-on-trent
Jeanette ,
I am in ST7, and on a hill, in a bungalow.Signal has just returned after about 12 hours.We are in a weak area for Wrekin transmissions and this happens occasionally due to atmospherics or sunspots, the inversion or the equinox. The two storey houses with higher aerials are usually ok.
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Friday 23 September 2011 2:28PM
Stoke-on-trent
I am in ST7 4UB in a bungalow with a wideband rooftop aerial. When digital was first available I got most channels. At the moment I am getting all channel 26 and 23 and channel 46 but the last comes and goes.All the others went off in July or later.My aerial I think points to the Wrekin,on my Humax PVR the signal detection status page says West Midlands for the transmitter and gives the channel numbers as above. The on screen messages told me to re-tune on September 7th and 21st but after the 7th the EPG did not even show the other channels,(eg pick TV). It looks as though I can get all the 20000kw channels ok. The 2000 kw is intermittent and I cannot get the 1000kw. Is there any date for these transmission strengths to be upped? By the way I have turned the aerial 360 deg and it gets nothing from any other direction.