All posts by Richard Baguley
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Have lost nearly all channels.
ITV (Ch46) is at 30% strength (which is <50% of immediate post DSO) but Ch55 is 0 - 2%, Ch45 0%.
What on earth is going on? This is worse than pre DSO and is totally unacceptable.
Is there a transmitter fault?
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Update
Signal strength now increased on Ch55 to 35% (c.50% of normal) but every few minutes drops to zero for a couple of seconds before returning to the same level as before.
I suspect a transmitter fault because all channels are now running at 50% of previous power and I don't believe it's atmospherics. Brian?
(My son in Langley - I'm in Dilham - reports 100% ss but that was some time after we lost everything.).
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We are tuned to Tacolneston (from Dilham NR28 9PU). Reception is fine with just a few dropouts.
In the last two weeks we have been getting a message on switch-on saying that, on May 9, we will lose stations and must retune.
Obviously, switchover here was last year so are we somehow getting a message from the south east e.g. via ITV+1 which is Meridien or is there another reason?
TIA
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Thanks, Dave.
You could be right but I did a clean reset in November and Sandy Heath is a fair way away.
Whatever, the message will no doubt disappear after May 9.
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DAB
DAB has been working fine with fair to good s/s with an indoor ribbon aerial.
Turned off receiver during storms and removed FM (external) aerial.
Now, all DAB stations have gone and display says No Stations plus Tuning Aid says B for bad reception. Auto scan does nothing.
This is with an Onkyo receiver; a Roberts portable (which uses its own aerial yet has far better reception than the Onkyo) still receives DAB but with digital glitches on some stations - it was perfect.
Any ideas?
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DAB update
Factory reset brought a few stations back but not all.
Signal strength still bad.
Obviously Tacolneston is running reduced strength DAB.
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Monday 28 November 2011 3:20PM
Brian(tist) - FYI, so far all is OK out here in the sticks near N Walsham. Mildly odd is that the BBC TV mux (C55) is at a slightly lower (displayed) signal strength than the others. Propagation quirk maybe. Still, it works fine at c.60% strength 100% quality.