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The difference in power between the Analogue and Digital signals is interesting - I am on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent, and this is the only transmitter most of the people in my village can see.

I have always had to use a TV amplifier (rated at 18dB gain) to get any signal !

Since the retune on 31st August, my one TV downstairs now sometimes stutters, but the one upstairs (connected to the 18dB gain) is useless - picture freezes / stutters / breaks up on every single channel (yet before the switch over and retune, I could at least watch the channels on PSB1 MUX.

Any suggestions?

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Keith,

Many thanks for the emails - I do have an adjustable gain on this amplifier, but if I turn it back even a small amount - ITV3 freezes on the downstairs TV so I turned it up very slightly until ITV3 was usable again - no noticeable difference on the upstairs TV.

It does seem odd that the situation is worse now that the analogue signal has been switched off (I was hoping it would improve).

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Thanks to the help on here, I have now successfully got both of my TVs working (just about useable ITV even on the TV upstairs, which has always been impossible to watch).

Oddly - ITV news is now the west midlands Central news (good for me as at last it now covers Stoke where I live!) - however, not quite sure how this works, as the signal is still from the Waltham Transmitter (East Midlands).

Alas BBC is still the East Midlands news.

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