All posts by Gweneh
Below are all of Gweneh's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.I am having the same problems with Channel 55 and I live in Suffolf (IP17). Seems the common factor here is the Tacolneston transmitter. Something changed in the last few days.
I wish some-one would fix it as BBC is currently unwatchable and as you said those are the channels we're paying our licence fee for!
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Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one Monday 14 October 2013 7:48PM
Saxmundham
Gweneh:
Thanks for that info jb83 however we did nothing with the ariel when aldeburgh came online and to date we have been happily picking up the Tacolneston channels.
I retuned one of the TVs an hour ago and for the first time ever it found something on channel 23 ie aldeburgh. This might actually be useful info as it tells me the ariel has possibly moved in last weeks high winds
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Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one Monday 14 October 2013 7:54PM
Saxmundham
Gweneh:
Thanks for that info jb83 however we did nothing with the ariel when aldeburgh came online and to date we have been happily picking up the Tacolneston channels.
I retuned one of the TVs an hour ago and for the first time ever it found something on channel 23 ie aldeburgh. This might actually be useful info as it tells me the ariel has possibly moved in last weeks high winds. I would have been happier had the tv found the other aldeburgh channels as we are still have no BBC channels
The ariel man cometh on Thursday so we'll see what he has to say. I would prefer to pick up the wignal from Tacolneston as there is stuff on arqA and ArqB I watch.
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Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one Monday 14 October 2013 10:57PM
Saxmundham
Gweneh:
Thanks jb83. Ariel was/is definitely aimed at Tacolneston - it was installed 8 years ago long before aldeburgh became a relay transmitter. Too dark to see which way the elements are orientated.
Did a bit of manual tuning earlier - signals as follows:
23 medium/poor - cannot pick up stations
28 medium/poor - cannot pick up stations
39 - nothing at all? Defo had arqB stations before
42 medium - can pick up stations
45 medium - cannot pick up stations
55 medium/good - can pick up stations
59 good - can pick up stations
We're on the other side of the road from that pole and you can't see the ariel from the road. Given the sudden appearance of channel 23 I'm sure it means the ariel's shifted slightly although it looks fine from the ground.
I'll let you know what the ariel chap has to say. I hope he can fix it because BBC channels are very hard to watch just now.
Thanks for your interest
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The ariel man has been and replace the amplifier on the ariel. The cover had blown off and it was all rusty on the inside. Slight panic when the first amplifier he fitted actually reduced reception, he replaced it with a lower gain amplifier and we are now cooking on gas!
The only strange thing is we are getting full signal strength from both aldeburgh and tacolneston - good to very good on all the channels I listed before. The ariel man said that there has been no movement in the ariel itself so I'm mystified as to why I should suddenly be getting signal from Aldeburgh. I've retuned enough tvs in this house to be 100% positive we have never found anything on 23 or 28 until last week.
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Gweneh: Thanks Ian. I guess as aldeburgh is a lot closer than tacolneston I would pick up signal from there...... Especially now the amplifier on the ariel has been fixed. And we definitely suffer in the summer with inversions.
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Saturday 12 October 2013 7:21PM
Saxmundham
We have been having trouble with digital reception for the last few days. My postcode is ip17 and we normally get our signal from aldeburgh via Tacolneston. Channel 55 (bbc1 et al) is the worst affected, the better TVs in the house are picking the signal up from other transmitters but the other TVs have no signal on channel 55. I am bored with retuning trying to get reception. All the sites that report freeview problems are denying there is a fault. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Has my ariel moved with the high winds, is there a problem at either of the transmitters? We use a booster.
Also, like Bill, we have had a choppy signal in the evenings for weeks now.