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I live near Bridport Dorset at DT6 6AH. I am trying to improve my reception and get the full range of freeview transmissions. When we moved to the louse we were getting just watchable signals on PBS1,2,3 but would get pixellation in rain. I investigated and found we were getting PBS1 on ch24, PBS2 on ch27 , PBS3 on ch21. I threfore assumed that were getting service from Rowridge but were not picking up the other commercial muxes because of distance.
I bought a new multi element A band antenne for the poorest signal areas and have installed it with vertical polarisation and with a masthead amplifier on a pole mounted on the chimney. I have carefully aligned it and now get very high quality (10/10) and very high signal stregth (10/10) on the same 3 PBS muxes but still none of the commercial mux's.
I note that Rowridge broadcasts at 200.000 watts on the vertical polarisation on the com muxes as well so my question is "Why am I not seeing them if the pbs muxes are so strong"
I am really puzzled by htis and would welcome any advice.
Thanks
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I live at DT6 6AH and have problems with reception despite new yagi 16 element antenna and new cabling due I tink to hills behind the house. My best transmitter so far has been rowridge. Today out of the blue the TV said new channels had been found and a scan locked all the ITV channels on Channel 56. Which transmitter am I on r how can i find out ?
The antenna is pointing at rowridge !!
Thanks
Tony
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I cannot see the colours orange and yellow on the output in each direction diagram. I can see blue . violet and red. Does this mean that COM5 output is full in every direction ?
Thanks
Tony
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I am now very confused! I read that Forces Tv Rowridge is on channel 37 Com8.
This is at the high end of these bouquets so perhaps a group c antenna would be appropriate.
I bought a high gain group a which I regretted because the pbs1,2,3 bouquets are broadcast at much higher power. A band c antenna in a fringe area might receive a larger group of stations
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Tuesday 12 August 2014 3:49PM
Bridport
We live in Higher Eype near Bridport DT6 6AH. I have mounted a group A high gain antenna on the roof and have some signals Ch24 and Ch 28 give High quality and High signal strength with the antenna mounted horizontally.
This I think means we are getting the signal from Rowridge.
If I look at the Rowridge transmitter data I see that the antenna could be mounted either Horizontally or vertically . I am puzzled about 2 things :-
Why dont I receive ch 21,25,22 all of which transmit at "Full"
What is the significance of the + or - following a channel number.
Thanks for any help
Tony