All posts by Pogle
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Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) Full Freeview transWednesday 5 October 2011 12:47PM
Brighton
OK, I've answered my own question: yes, Stupid, it points the way you'd expect. Not just an assumption. And yes I'm picking up IoW which is 100x more powerful than Whitehawk.
The problem I'd been having was that my Humax was automatically tuning certain channels to Whitehawk and they were very unreliable. I found a way to manually tune everything to IoW.
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I'm just back from Somerset where the BBC channels on C61 were very unreliable, stuttering and sometimes cutting out altogether. The other channels on C54 and C48 were mostly fine. The signal strength was a constant 70% or more on all but Quality fluctuated wildly on C61, often falling from 100% to 40% and sometimes lower while staying constant on the other channels.
Why would different channels, apparently with the same power rating behave so differently? Is there anything to be done without replacing the aerial. Maybe a signal booster?
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Wednesday 5 October 2011 11:07AM
Brighton
Very, very , very basic question to which I've been unable to find an answer anywhere:
when you 'point' an aerial, which way is forward? I've always assumed it's along the length of the aerial and that the bigger part at one end of the aerial is the back - as if the other (small) end is the arrowhead pointing at the transmitter.
But if that's the case why are all my neighbours' aerials in Kemptown, south of the hospital, pointing roughly WSW towards the sea? I would've thought Whitehawk would be my nearest transmitter, but even if I'm wrong about the pointing direction, and the aerial points side on, the orientation would not fit.
Are we picking up Isle of Wight or something? I can't make sense of it. Thanks for any insight.