All posts by Nick
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Please would some kind person give me a possible explanation as to why I cannnot receive anything from the mux on ch 60?
I get 100% from ch 58, and cannot see why just two channels higher there is not even a weak signal. Granted the aerial may not be wideband enough, yet when there were very low power stations on ch 63, just occasionally I could receive them. Nick, Hollesley.
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I thought that the good people of Kent might be interested to know that in my coastal location north of Felixtowe, I get all Dover channels with a homemade aerial on my shed, approx the height of the upstairs window, yet cannot get all the muxes from my local, Sudbury, with the appropriate roof aerial!
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Hi Dave,
You were possibly talking to the other Nick, but here at Hollesley I am scratching my head.
I actually have three boxes on three separate Sudbury aerials. In analogue days, one aerial was much better for C5. Now I find that the main box, my pvr, on that aerial, shows virtually no signal on ch60 and therefore no reception, whilst the other boxes and aerials are now getting the mux on C60. Dover, on a homemade aerial, at upstairs window height only, brings in all channels!
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the two Nicks are floundering, and if the other one has problems slap bang up against the transmitter, what hope is there for this one?
Better try to get Dover to put on Susie Flowerpot and Stuart White I suppose.
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Dave, thanks for your assistance. What exactly is negative offset?
With certain aerials I can now get c60, but the signal is weak, no comparison with c58.
Dover, however, continues at 100%.
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I notice Sudbury, traditionally group B, now has more muxes in group C than B, and Tacolneston, traditionally group C, now has channels in group B. They do like to make things difficult.
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Thanks Dave.
I get from this that C60- is slightly less out of group B aerials than C60.
Does this mean that if they chose, they could put some stations on three frequencies all centred on C60?
I suppose there is some good reason for Tac and Sud not to be able to swap some muxes so as to return to their traditions of groups C and B so that we don't have to buy new aerials.
I am still not certain why you mentioned the minus part of C60. Are you saying it may be harder to receive than if it were not minus?
I am amazed that there is a good signal on C58, but almost zero on C60, particularly on one aerial.
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Why is it when there are transmissions on c42 a c/d aerial is recommended rather than wideband? I cannot get all the channels from Sudbury, whichever aerial I use, so must try Tac, but need to know the best aerial. Sudbury has as many channels out of its traditional group, specifically in what used to be the domain of Tac, yet recommends a different aerial.
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Monday 9 July 2012 8:14PM
Aldeburgh
I notice there is no mention now of engineering, but still minus Challenge.