All posts by John Brown
Below are all of John Brown's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Thanks for the response re Malvern com4/ArqA. Without doing anything at our end the pictures were miraculously restored by 1700hrs today (Tuesday)! I suspect the transmitter had been down on power or off and we could have been receiving ridge hill. Our aerial was installed at the start of free-view and has worked OK ever since.
Many thanks.
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jb38: More problems with Malvern com4. It's very intermittent (some days ok others not) and my wife is losing patience (no cooking ch). We appear to be on right transmitter - ch59 but sig quality is red (bad) and strength about 75percent at present.. Tried manual retune but just says "no more channels found". When doing channel autosearch none of the com4 ones appear. We also have a non-self tuning dvb set which (today) is showing all com4 channels without problem.
Any suggestions please?
John Brown
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Just checked our pvr. Perfect reception and picture - full strength/quality on com 4. Same aerial as tv's. What is going on?
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jb38: Aerial has vertical poles. Checked non-self tune set in incoming aerial socket and all channels OK, including dodgy ones. (Note have a mains powered booster - non tune set only works after this).
There is a large Lidl store being built about 400m from here (line of site from aerial position I would think). This is steel frame building with flattish roof and they are now cladding the vertical faces with steel sheets. This building lies slightly to the right of aerial setting. Problems only started about the time roof was being fixed. Could this be the problem?
Regards
John Brown
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Booster is Fringe Electronics P1290-2 . System is - incoming aerial /tee in lead to first set in bedroom (I think there may be some form of passive booster, if that is possible)/ lead continues to outlet in living room which is connected to mains booster. One output goes to non tune set, the other to pvr which then has HDMI to telly. This set works fine if used via pvr. First set is really the only one that cannot be viewed properly - but this is the one my wife uses!
Dodgy channels show bad signal when switching to them. - both sets are Panasonic.
I'm now inclined to agree that aerial is misaligned and will try to correct. I notice that a lot of aerials around here have what look like cross shaped poles and point towards Malvern. Would these also collect from Ridge Hill? Is there any benefit?
Regards,
John Brown
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Problem solved! 4g aerials directly in line between us and Malvern transmitter. Now have new aerial and retuned to Sutton Coldfield. Because the problem was not of my making, but the government's, which department do I send the bill to?
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Monday 31 August 2015 7:28AM
We are experiencing breakup on all channels 11 through 132. Has been occurring for about a week. Have reset/retuned - no change. Is there a problem with com5 ArqA.? We live in WR49XQ.
Currently channels unwatchable.