All posts by Alan Goodall
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StevensOnln1:
I am north of Craig Kelly at KY13 0LG. Local transmitter is Kinross but does not carry as many channels.
Thanks.
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StevensOnln1:
We have a relatively new aerial, installed by one of the nationwide installers. It is a cheap, bottom of the range one. Single central pole with about a dozen elements, and no wingflap things on the end. It was installed about 2 years ago. It is installed on the chinmey stack on top of a two floor house.
The line of sight to Craigkelly is complicated by landscape, big hills between us and the transmitter, but we maybe just "sneak" round the edge of the hill. That said, I cant see the transmitter from ground level outside our house. We are on a farm and get pixelation occurring when a large tractor passes outside (at 90 degrees to, and about 10 feet below the line of the aerial).
The signal passes through an amplifier in the roof then feeds two rooms. The Sony TVs present the picture well enough on all channels, but we route through a Humax Aura DVR which cannot reliably present a watchable signal on Dave, Quest, itv3 and others
There is nothing wrong with the hdmi cabling, it is just that the Humax seems to have a less efficient/less powerful signal utilisation. The aerial connects to the humax box, then from there to the TV. There is also an hdmi link from Humax to the TV.
The Humax shows both poor signal strength and quality on the affected channels, which is why I ponder getting a higher gain aerial.
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Tuesday 1 November 2022 6:44PM
Can it be confirmed that Craigkelly is now entirely a GroupA transmitter? I get sketchy reception on many channels from Craigkelly and am thinking about swapping to a Group A aerial from a Group K on the belief that it will boost Group A reception. But won't do this if it means dropping some channels.