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Chris SE

Thank you for your explanation.
Did you see my query about why we did not have the current reasonably close group of channels in the first place?
If it can be done now, why could it not be done then?

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Chris SE,
Thanks. Whatever the reason, the new arrangement is far better than when we had muxes on c58 and c60.

Do you know about aerials? I am staggered how good the log periodic is. Perhaps they have been improved over the years. Does each element receive the signal, thus adding to performance? For example, the longest and shortest element also increase the signal for c39, albeit they are the wrong length?

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Chris SE
Have you seen my message?

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Chris SE,
Thank you. I will study these. Each element is tuned to its frequency but doubtless all the others get a lesser signal too, adding to overall performance, and doubtless the smaller space between the smaller elements gives some of the advantages of a yagi.

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Chris SE.
I have made what I think is an interesting discovery today testing several aerials at only 6ft from the ground. They all have good reception but they ALL are very poor with regard to signal quality, 33%, on channel 37, right in the middle of the range of channels used by Sudbury. This is presumably why 37 is the first to go on my rooftop aerial. if 47 were poor, or 29 were poor, I could understand it was an aerial problem, but this is a mystery. Any ideas please?

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Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Saturday 23 September 2023 11:34PM

Chris SE, thanks. I follow your reasoning here. This must be some form of interference, and I suspect from your notes, that it must be that Holland has a troublesome transmitter on this channel.
It is almost impossible to locate my test aerials elsewhere, but I have made further discoveries. Signal quality on 37 improves after dark.
Some of my aerials, during the day, show the quality jumps up from 30 to 90, but then within a second jumps back down..
I have tested several aerials, and the log is second best. The only one that defeats this problem during the day is home made and produces a steady 70 plus quality. Basically it is the old fashioned 18 element group B, but with two parallel groups of 16 directors and a circular dipole about 8 ins diameter. which markedly improves the bandwidth. The directivity may be keeping out the intruder.

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Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 27 September 2023 12:00AM

Chris SE.
It jumps up suddenly and back suddenly during the times it is only 30% and I get not signal, usually afternoons.
When it is working, I get 70-80%, a bit down, but not much, on the other channels.



I swung my super aerial round today, just six ft off the ground, and got the BBC mux from Dover.

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Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Wednesday 27 September 2023 10:55AM

Chris SE,
thanks, but I have no idea apart from the Dutch, what it can be.
It is undoubtedly this tropo you mention that is causing my problem on 37 don't you think?
Tropo or not I am still coming to the conclusion that the different multiplexes on their different channels and the same power are not all as good at reaching the other end!
Perhaps an example of this is Dover. I can get the BBC mux, but the ITV one not quite, because like my C37 from Sudbury, the 'quality' figure is shooting all over the place, and as for the other muxes from Dover, the is no sign of them.

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Dover (Kent, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Thursday 28 September 2023 12:13AM

why are half the tv muxes only radiating 40kw?

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Chris SE and Steve Donaldson.
Thanks. This is getting complicated. I am trying to find out on a map where this French transmitter is, but can scarcely believe believe just 8kw from France is going to reach here.

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