All posts by Nick
Below are all of Nick's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
In IP12 my aerial is on Sudbury, as are 95% of others, from where we traditionally got the best signal on analogue as we do now on digital, a very ghosty one from Aldeburgh on the wrong aerial. However, when I retune the box periodically, it finds channels in the channel 21-28 area, which I believe are from Aldeburgh. Does this mean that it is finding me for example the weaker BBC1 signal rather than the one from Sudbury? How can I make it detect the channels from the right transmitter?
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How do I align my aerial in Aldeburgh to get the Sudbury transmitter? I believe whichever way I turn it, a meter will log on to Aldeburgh instead.
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Why does a non hd freeview box not show the channels used for hd, albeit not in HD?
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In Aldeburgh I would like to align my aerial to Sudbury to get more channels, but understand the meter would simply log me on to Aldeburgh because of its strength. How do I align to Sudbury please? It was easy with analogue, just turned for the best picture.
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Thank you Mike for very full answers. I think I will have to do it the hard way, with someone on the ground, and hope for the best.
The aerial is home-made. One of my hobbies, and tested on analogue when I could see the difference as I added directors. I don't like wideband as they tail off so much at either end, and with Sudbury in the mid band, I prefer an aerial for that group, and hope for the best with channels outside it. In essence it is an old J Beam, with the square slot dipole and reflector, but modified now with 2 extra sets of directors, tribeam
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I read somewhere that Tac has a higher mast and therefore greater coverage since going digital. Is this true?
I ask as I am putting up a large aerial at Aldeburgh to get the full set of freeview channels. Prior to digital, it was outside the Tac area, with Sudbury our supplier if we don't want 'freeview light' from Aldeburgh. I now don't know whether to go for Tac or Sud.
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Thank you, Dave. Have I got this right, that several of Tac's muxes, currently on 100kw will REDUCE power? I suppose that is progress! That will please people. At about the same time the weak Sud muxes go up.
I had a look at the Tac map, above, it seems to cover a bigger range than when it was analogue, and shows Aldeburgh in its range, but will go for Sud.
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Tuesday 27 March 2012 11:05PM
Challenge, Yesterday etc should ALL be on Freesat. Freesat was sold to those of us who can't get a prooper signal on Freeview as an alternative equal service. We have been short-changed. We have to have rubbish shopping channels instead. If the regulator was worth the taxpayer's money it receives, it would do something about it.