All posts by Andy
Below are all of Andy's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.I am confused.
Brian says that there is no work ongoing at Hannington, but Mike refers to work on the analogue ariel.
We are also told that Hannington is not broadcasting a digital signal, but the whole of this discussion thread is on a page headed "Freeview on the Hannington transmitter"...
I have been living in Basingstoke for years and have had good freeview reception from the day I first got a freeview box. I have always been told that the signals are coming from Hannington... that was always proved to me by the fact that most people on the west side of basingstoke would get itv meridian and bbc south-west, but those on the London-facing side would get itv and BBC London... even on freeview.
I just don't understand why the digital reception could be fine for so long, and then suddenly drop so dramatically. Weather seems like a "leaves on the line" excuse - sorry, no disrespect intended!
Oh well. Since I'm not supposed to be able to watch freeview (along with all the inhabitants of Basingstoke), I guess I'll just have to put up with it until 2012. Sorry for sounding frustrated.
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I have now had it confirmed to me in writing by our ariel provider, and by the developer in our area of Limes Park (Basingstoke) - Hannington transmitter IS undergoing "extensive engineering works... an upgrade to be ready for the digital switch over." I have also been told that "this upgrade may take months and might have some influence on your TV signal reception insofar as some days you might have all the channels you normally benefit from and some days you might only have terrestrial [i.e. analogue] channels."
So the message for those who are serviced from Hannington is we just have to put up with it, and retune our digi-boxes periodically to see if we can get better reception, and hopefully by 2012 it should be better.
And before people in Basingstoke and the east of the region think of turning their ariels towards Crystal Palace, that has major works going on too!
I appreciate that these works have to go on, with such a major change coming next year, especially with an old mast like Hannington. I just probably would have expected a generally communication to be sent around to the half a million people affected. Or at least, especially on a website like this, it should be easier to get the full and true story.
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Tuesday 8 March 2011 9:26AM
Basingstoke
I live in Limes Park, Basingstoke . Since Thursday 3 March we have only had a good digital signal on BBC channels. I have been told locally that this is because of engineering work going on at the Hannington transmitter. I was also told that the work should have been complete yesterday (7th March). We are still having problems. Does anyone know what the situation is and how long it will take to get back to normal? And does anyone know why there is so little information on engineering works that affect the signal for so many people for so long??? Pretty bad service in my view!