All posts by Richard Baguley
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May have found the solution and it's very odd.
The aerial plug/socket connection to the TV is iffy. Just moving it gently caused a total dropout. Took the plug out, unscrewed it slightly, tightened it up and inserted it - signal quality 10/10, strength 8.5/10.
The odd bit is that this has never been touched since I installed the TV with a carefully clipped cable loom. And I thought the wall socket plug would be the problem!
If anything useful crops up I'll post again but fingers x'd for now.
Thanks for the input, folks.
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What happened to Tacolneston tonight?
Several channels on different mixes off air but not all.
Becoming all too common.
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Annoying: no threading.
BBC CH Four blocky and dropping out.
Anyone here who really understands transmitter problems?
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MikeP,
No need to give post code as I'm not asking about specific location.
If the transmission is dropping and/or s/s is low on only some channels it's the transmitter, atmospherics, nearby interference or user aerial system- in that order. In this case the problem was excellent s/s but zero quality so transmitter or (unlikely) atmospherics.
You guys always give the same answers: never the transmitter. In all my dealings with TV and radio reception transmitter faults have nearly always been the cause. Indeed, a couple of acquaintances were BBC transmission engineers and they said the same.
So, all I'm hoping to get is confirmation that others are having similar problems.
This site is a mine of information but it is terribly designed. For instance, why not use open source software to run a proper forum with threaded topics? I guarantee you will get better coverage immediately.
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I see I am not alone: a number of people is complaining that signal problems are increasing.
Tonight, two muxes were down near N. Walsham. The latest is Ch31. It has returned after wild s/q fluctuations but is unreliable.. S/q is varying rapidly from zero to 100%. Again: s/s is at max or very close on all stations but s/q is zero on affected stations.
All other muxes are fine.
Transmitter.
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DAB
Your website shows Classic FM as being transmitted from Tacolneston.
My radio no longer lists this station. In fact the only stations it lists are BBC ones. Running postcode checks on the main DAB promoter site confirms that DAB in Norfolk is BBC only.
Who is right?
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It appears that channel switching is already happening.
We can no longer receive BBC 4 HD.
A retune is necessary: you didn't warn of this, why not? Or did you?
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BBC 4 HD Tacolneston is no longer being broadcast!
A retune does not work. The same message comes up: the channel has moved.
What on Earth is going on?!
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Found the channel has moved to 106.
Nothing available on the internet so far as I can see.
TV interface also totally changed and no longer intuitive.
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Sunday 18 September 2016 7:12PM
Update
HD still u/s. SD fine.
BBC1 HD (101, Ch50) shows good s/s at c.75% but quality very poor to non existent..