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OK so have found some other pages here that were helpful in my understanding, so partly replying to my own question...
It looks like initially picking up HD channels must have come from Crystal Palace as nowhere else is transmitting them. From memory, the aerial isn't pointing in that direction though and I see there are a number of nearer transmitters. I'm thinking that my mother receives the local news so that would indicate she gets signal from a nearby transmitter.
So... the coverage map for Crystal Palace looks as though it reaches RG41 in the green area. Are there any issues (apart from I guess she will receive BBC/ITV London news) to bear in mind if we tried to point the aerial at Crystal Palace? Is interference likely?
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Wednesday 19 January 2011 12:01PM
Wokingham
Hi, was wondering if anyone has some advice. I got my mother a new TV for Christmas. She previously had a set-top box which picked up all Freeview channels, though one of her favourite shopping channels (sigh) Rocks and Co which I think is on Ch40 would come and go depending on the weather.
I tuned the new TV at my house where we get all the new HD channels as well -- brilliant! We took it to hers the next day (RG41 Wokingham, not due to switch over until 2012 sadly) and at first even the HD channels worked, although the signal broke up a bit so we re-tuned. After that we not only couldn't get HD channels at all, but a number of regular Freeview channels didn't show up, and Ch40 is not there at all!
I was reading this page about aerial types. The current one is roof mounted, set quite high above the roofline, but I think it's an old one. Would you advise getting a high-gain digital type aerial? Might that even help retrieve the HD channels? :-) Any other advice? Might pointing at a different transmitter work?