All posts by Martin Engwell
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Further to my comment and question, it seems that I may be better off realigning to the Sudbury mast as this is the next best signal and requires the same type of aerial (horizontal). The Thetford mast would require a vertically polarised aerial. My question remains, should I realign my aerial (to Sudbury)?
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Martin Engwell: Thank you, Dave Lindsay, for your helpful comments. I am currently suffering from very poor reception due, presumably to the engineering works at Tacolneston, and the reportedly low power output. I wonder, therefore, why it is that the BBC channels are most affected and the ITVchannels hardly at all. Another anomoly is that an old Philips small screen TV maintains a good reception but my much newer Samsung TVs suffer massively. Are the latter likely to be more sensitive to poor signal strength? In fairness, the latter do have a slightly longer cable run.
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Thursday 1 November 2012 1:52PM
Thetford
I live just outside Thetford and my TV aerial is in the loft and directed to Tacolneston. I regularly get 'blocky' interference when we have windy weather and have put this down to the presence of a very large eucalyptus tree in our neighbours garden which is directly aligned with the Tacolneston mast. Putting the aerial on the roof would not overcome the interference caused by the tree. Currently we are experiencing severe interference and loss of signal and I assume that this even poorer performance is due to the engineering work at Tacolneston right now. I am within range to the Thetford relay transmitter and the line of sight would be away from the offending tree. I could live with the reduced service if I got a reliable signal; so would it be worth realigning my aerial?