All posts by Richard Baguley
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Neighbour's TV reception is OK. May be a squirrel's eaten our aerial cable!
It is only Freeview that is affected: FM radio s/s is fine.
Apologies for taking up bandwidth.
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Have just done a Freeview DVD Recorder factory reset and rescan.
This brought channel count up to 84 and Ch55 is back also ITV4 BUT s/s is near zero - Ch55 is 3 to 5% and programs unwatchable.
My suspicion is that the Sony RDR-HXD970 has a poor tuner (from web searching) and my neighbour's TV is more sensitive so is pulling in a steadier picture.
So, I'm not ruling out a transmitter fault - anyone know anything?
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Thanks, MikeB.
We'll be borrowing kit and trying the machine in another house tomorrow, This should determine whether it's the box or the aerial.
If it's the aerial it's probably right at the harness/connector on the aerial: FM comes into the house via the same amplifier and that's fine.
Up to now & since analog was closed s/s has been excellent - all went kaput overnight.
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Have just read the last three pages of this thread: there are too maby people with the same fault for it not to be the Tacolneston transmitter.
It also occurred to me that our s/s may have dropped some time ago but only to this very low level now.
What I really need is a meter or to try my Sony machine in a neighbour's house.
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Today: no digital signal at all!!!
On reflection, I had noticed some very minor pixellation over the last few weeks so s/s was probably going down.
I'm now convinced it's a transmitter fault (no 4G here).
To go from high s/s to zero is completely unacceptable so I'll cease paying the BBC tax if it's proven to be the transmitter.
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I agree, Mike.
Since speaking to the rigger I took a look at the aerial.
Believe it, or not, I hadn't noticed the mast head amplifier box on the mast before! This appears not to have a cover i.e. the innards can be seen, we think.
Anyway, no signal at all on TV now - though FM is perfect.
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MikeB: I couldn't disagree more.
The BBC most certainly is extreme leftist, green and out of touch. It has made and commissioned much good work but it is over reaching itself. There is no reason why much more should not be put out to tender (though, from experience I am aware that no-one at a government institution is capable of proper contract negotiation and management).
The BBC's recent mind boggling directive to program makers that no discussion on man made global warming must involve a person (or persons) who dissents from the (non existent and scientifically baseless) consensus in flagrant breach of its charter typifies how far out of control this socialist bureaucracy has gone.
I'd privatise the lot.
Btw, the Mail privatisation wasn't necessarily bad or some kind of cheap deal: nobody can gainsay the market and the market deemed the shares a better buy than expected. Nothing wrong with that - unless you're a capitalist hating socialist.
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Here's a very strange one!
Tonight, BBC One HD has no sound on the digital output, internal speaker is OK.
All other channels are OK.
The same feed (World Cup) on ITV HD is fine (not that we watched the boring WC!).
On switching to BBC One HD there's an audible click from the hi-fi amp which I suspect is being generated by the DAC we are using as it's getting a non standard signal.
TV & DAC are new.
Anyone else having a similar problem?
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Sunday 22 December 2013 3:17PM
Further check:-
No BBC radio stations.
Channel 55 missing, ITV4 etc missing.
Signal strength c.10% on those channels present.