All posts by Rob T
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I live to the east of Southampton and have an aerial engineer attending to sort out my issues on behalf of Freeview on 9/6. My signal is already marginal so I'm intending to ask them to fit a group E aerial to suppliment my group A and use a diplexer. I dont want to compromise on a wide band as I believe it will not pull in as good a signal as I get now for the group A channels.
This web page explains the procedure if anyone is interested.
Aerials
I will report back how it goes....
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MikeB:
Although I am in a notionally good area, I have a huge tree between the house and the transmitter. Also my house doesn't have a chimney so height is also an issue.
As well as a couple of tvs, I also use an item called an HDHomerun network tuner which enables tv via ethernet. This item requires a high quality signal, more than the stand alone tvs.
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Further to my previous post about having my group A aerial replaced by Freeview, here is an update.
A really nice guy arrived with some serious testing equipment. He noted the signal I was receiving with my current aerial and proceeded to replace it with a Triax wide band hi gain. He checked the signal again and noted that although I could now see the missing channels (and they are there and use-able)my siganl on 21 had reduced and 55 and 56 were not good. He carried out a site survey with an aerial on a pole and noted if my aerial was moved to the front of the house, I would get a much better signal (currently the aerial is mounted to the back wall with a cranked pole as I don't have a chimney).
He said his report would say that the signal was unsatisfactory and that he would need to return to re site the aerial with a new bracket, pole and cable into my loft.
So currently I have the missing channels restored (BBC News HD, BBC Four HD, PBS America and perhaps a few I dont care about!) but the signal is not great. And he's coming back to re site the aerial and I wont have to pay apparently!
I have lost a bit of signal on ch 21 but no blockiness noted. Ch 55 and 56 are both at sig strength 60, quality 58, sym quality 100 and useable but I suspect if the weather deteriorated they would soon suffer break up.
Further to follow..
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Saturday 19 May 2018 3:09PM
Tony Whyman:
I saw this too, suddenly this morning BBC News HD and the various other channels that I have lost due to having a group A aerial for Rowridge.
But now the wedding is over, they've all gone again. Was this just for the wedding?
I've got the aerial people (via Freeview complaints) coming on 9/6. I was going to stand them down but no such luck.