All posts by Nick
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JB, thanks.
I was looking up the xmitter for a friend in Upper Hale....seems I should have cleared something.
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JB,
I can get Clacton for local BBC and ITV but have to turn aerial slightly from Dover. I was considering making a short tribeam, 10 element, in an attempt to get Dover for most channels and Clacton for local. What do you think?
What contortions I have to go through. I wonder what they are currently doing to the Sudbury xmitter.
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Come to Suffolk, Dover fine here.
We have similar problems with a 'light' service only from our local transmitter at Aldeburgh who put out, for example, ITV 1plus 1 rather than ITV 3. Our main transmitter at Sudbury is very iffy for the non basic channels but fine for the main ones, can't win, except for opting for Dover.
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I am fairly sure that the inversion effect is knocking out the mux on channel 60 from Sudbury, which can otherwise be strong. However, when I turn the aerial to Holland or France, I get no stations, unlike when I tune to other channels and get plenty of foreigners. Can the inversion effect be blamed under these circumstances?
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Please would someone give me an address or phone number of whoever I should contact re reception problems from Sudbury on Arq A only? I get all other muxes, and turning the aerial, various other transmitters, but Arq is usually not there at all, or pixelates.
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Thank you, Heinz, but that does not explain a 90%+ signal quality on all muxes apart from the one using ch 60, which can sometimes be zero.
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I have, Tim, all the same. With the same aerial turned, I can get Clacton, Dover and Tacolneston. I am sure the transmitter is not all it should be.
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Whatever anyone says, I believe the Sudbury transmitter has problems with the channels outside the old analogue channels, whatever the aerial and particularly if you are not on the doorstep of the transmitter. The mux using channel 60 is dreadful. Whilst the one on channel 58 can give near 100% sig strength and quality, I look at what happens on ch 60. The quality flashes within milliseconds between 90% and zero. They need to look at it.
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Thank you, JB, I have missed you.
I maintain that there is a problem with Sudburys ch 60, and have been trying to find out who to report it to. The BBC, not that it is one of theirs, did not even bother to reply.
I know that I repeat myself, but Aldeburgh, in a high location, could even sometimes get the former low power 3kw transmissions on ch 63, and currently all other muxes are high in quality and strength, yes, they change a little as you watch the readings, but do not flash from zero to 90. I wish I could locate the right department to correct this fault.
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Wednesday 22 August 2012 10:34AM
Farnham
Thanks Dave,
This is what is so hard to understand. c60 is definitely the worst, yet putting the aerial to Holland, or France, on that channel receives nothing.
I will not put the aerial to vertical, they are enough trouble horizontal.
I have also been trying Tac. Under 'normal' conditions I can get most muxes, if not all, but most are currently wiped out.
I will be interested to see if Dover continues to come in in winter, when analogue was weak, and if Sudbury improves. Meanwhile, all is upside down, seems like I need one aerial for winter, and another for summer. Long overdue that they sorted out those foreigners. I have now asked around. Lots of locals given up on freeview.
Sudbury c56, 58, and especially 60, one minute 97%, the next, gone. 41 and 44 almost always fine.