Bow Brickhill (Milton Keynes, England) DAB transmitter
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Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Bow Brickhill (Milton Keynes, England) mast?
No problems on any service. 
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Bow Brickhill DAB Bow Brickhill AM/FMSunday, 28 December 2014
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Paul evans5:00 PM
Milton Keynes
Hi
I live in bow brickhill mk179jp and I havnt been able to receive bbc channels for months now only through sky.
Also I keep loosing all my free view channels especially channels 1to10 and when I retune my TVs the reception is bitty and doesn't want to refresh.all my TVs are less than a year old so no problems with them.
Many thanks Paul Evans.
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Monday, 16 October 2023
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Mr David Edmonds7:36 PM
Getting poor DAB reception in Emerson Valley and City Centre
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Tuesday, 17 October 2023
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Chris.SE11:26 PM
Mr David Edmonds:
You haven't given a postcode but I also get the impression you are having problems when mobile (in a car?), but having done a few checks, you shouldn't be having any problems receiving the main BBC National multiplex from any of at least 4 transmitters you might receive in your area, I can't find any reports of faults or problems due to essential engineering etc.
Which DAB stations are you having problems with?
At home, is this a portable receiver with it's own rod aerial? Have you moved it from where you previously used it? If somewhere like a kitchen have you moved/added something like a large fridge/freezer?
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Wednesday, 18 October 2023
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Mr David Edmonds8:09 PM
Chris.SE: I live in MK4 area and yes mainly listen to DAB when in the car. DAB reception has become poorer in recent years. Not in just one car but different ones. I am wondering if the power has been reduced or direction of signal altered. This is across all BBC also with Radio X, Smooth and other stations
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Chris.SE11:36 PM
Mr David Edmonds:
There won't have been any reductions in power. The greatest DAB coverage will be the BBC National multiplex. The next would be the Commercial D1 multiplex and somewhat less the 2nd Commercial SDL multiplex.
Having said that, all those three are well covered in your area, not all areas are so fortunate,
Local multiplexes available in some areas will have more limited coverage.
You may experience some minor problems in heavily built up areas but these should not be widespread because of the way DAB operates it will automatically switch signals from one transmitter to another with the National networks. The majority of Local multiplexes only have one transmitter except in large urban conurbations. where there may be more than one.
It's also worth remembering that certain types of weather conditions can disrupt reception. We recently had such conditions. There was some quite extreme Tropospheric Ducting (not only for the time of year, but also severity) that came with the high pressure system from around October 7th for the best part of a week. This causes signals from distant transmitters to travel considerably further than normal not only in the TV Bands IV & V, but also FM in Bands II and DAB in BAnd III.
So those signals can disrupt the wanted signals you are trying to receive when they are on the same frequency. Also, it's quite common in the radio bands to receive foreign stations that you wouldn't normally hear. Picking up French stations in the south of the country is something that can occur periodically.
If you have regular problems in some specific locations, try and provide a full postcode for them as well as which multiplex and we could try and see if there's an obvious reason.
One annoying thing with the commercial multiplexes is trying to discovered when there is engineering or faults that'll affect reception!
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