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Now i know they are going to turn the analogue tranmissions off in april 2012.
but when are the going to turn the power up on the digital transmissions is this going to happen at the same time??
stu
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hi, i am in Camberley, surrey i have my aerial pointing at crystal palace as every other house in my round has the same.
i have a 52 element digital aerial but i can only get the stronger signal channels ie, bbc 1, 2 ,3,4 pick tv, yesterday ect.
I can not receive channel 5 or itv as the signal is to weak my bbc signal is only 56% according to my freeview + box.
My question is will the signal boost in April or will i have to have some sort of booster?? what date will the boost happen if any?.
thx
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Thank you Dave Lindsay for your fast reply.
Well that puts my mind at rest i will leave the aerial as is and await april.
i cant seem to do a manual tune on my brand new goodmans freeview + box only automatic tuning lol.
I'm getting 60% signal and 48% quality at present on bbc ect so it can all only get better though i am supposed to be able to get a better signal from hannington i did try this transmitter with no luck and guildford but the hogs back gets in the way as i said all the aerials in my road point to crystal palace so who am i to argue lol.
again many thx for the amazingly fast reply.
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Hi guys after some advice,, we used to point our aerial at crystal palace as before switch over we could get our best signal from there i live in gu15 2rg.
after switch over our signal didnt really get much better with constant breaking up and freezing so in my wisdom i brought a new aerail and fitted it in the loft pointing at hannington.
we now get 80% signal signal and 100% quility but we get constant pixalation and breaking up i have switched all routers ect off in the house to take these out of the loop.
i have tried and tried adjusting the aerial to see if it makes things any better to no avail.
it is far worse at sun going down time so i believe it is atmotherics but how can i get round this ????
i have tried pointing at guildford but cant get a signal from there with the aerial turned on its side.
any ideas as it really is driving me up the wall my pvr and the tv get the same problems.
you can watch the signal quility staying at full for 3 or 4 mins the all of a sudden dropping down to nothing then slowly going back up it like if you walked in front of the aerial lol.
any ideas?
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thx for the reply dave, i would have put the aerial on the chimney if it wasnt for my complete fear of hieghts lol.
i see were your coming from with cove hills they would be in my line of sight i have a school field in front of me with the nearest tree about 250 meters away.
it just seems strange that 90% of the time i get great freeview on all muxs then every now and then it drops like a stone.
maybe its just something i am going to have to get used to, as cant afford a expert as out of work at the moment.
my pvr cant get on with it as when the signal drops it gets gaps in a recorded program.
we used to get the same problem on a 2 year old aerial mounted on the chimney facing crystal palace but it is a new aerial in the loft with new coaxail and new plugs i am using rf plugs for the join.
we could have got help under the help scheme but when the guy came out he said that the chimney had to many aerials on it so he could not do anything about it and went.
he said the bbc would not take old aerials down that have been up there since the seventies.
i had a new one fitted by a family member 2 years ago which didnt really work and i dont want to have to pay out again to rent a ridge ladder.
anyway thank you for your help.
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Thursday 1 December 2011 5:32PM
@Alanjc are you running a humax box as i cant get itv player yet only bbciplayer :(
i have a sagem hd box