All posts by Tony
Below are all of Tony's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Definitely a problem. All my agro (see 16 Oct post) went away after the last retune but returned at the start of the week. Bloody digital - bring back analogue. I would only miss BBC3/4 and Film 4 they can keep the rest.
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All very peculiar. Still having problems with all channels apart from C58, which should be worse coverage as it, is a lower level transmitter than the rest. The remaining channels are completely unwatchable at 6pm but by 8-9pm things improve with only occasional/ partial pixelation. Havent checked the situation in the day yet.
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JB38: Thanks for the suggestion. Indeed I am able to pick up Sandy and sometimes the reception is better than Sudbury, when the aerial was originally installed (about 10 years ago) we had the choice of either transmitter as the reception was near identical. I am going to swing the aerial to Sandy today to see if I get any great improvement. If this fails I will try a new aerial (ATVs XB22WB) possibly on a longer pole. The main issue is the fact that we did have perfect reception until the recent round of engineering works.
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JB38: Thanks for your suggestions. I dont have any test equipment so the signal strength & quality readings are taken from the Panasonic Viera TV (recently purchased) sliding scales 1-10. I normally show strength 10 on all Sudbury channels. Quality of 2 and above I am able to view without problems. Pointed the aerial to Sandy midday Sunday picked up all OK. Sudburys C58 appeared stronger than Sandys C51 with power down slightly to 8 quality about 4. Switched on again at about 6 all back to quality 1 apart from C58. Swung the aerial back to Sudbury & retuned, signal strength 10, quality 1 (pixelated) on all apart from C58 quality 3 (OK) & C24 (Sandy) strength 8, quality 3 (OK). By about 9 pm the rest cleared up with quality of 3-6. I have noticed when things clear up C47 HD will normally show strength 10, quality 1 but picture is fine. Also the reason I am thinking of a new aerial is that the present one is a B group (yellow end cap) possibly an Antiference DX8 (looks the same but cant be sure as I havent hauled it down yet) with masthead amp.
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JB38: Both are running at strength 10, quality 1. The wire test shows an intermittent strength of 1 to 3 on both channels.
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JB38: Thanks for all your help, I think I will try the Log 40 approach, any particular make you would recommend?
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JB: Thanks for all your time & energies. I have replaced he old aerial with a Log 40, and the old Logitech 8 way amp & Logitech masthead amp (rating unknown- nothing marked on it) with a Proception proamp 28 and 7-22db masthead amp set to lowest setting + new cable from proamp to the aerial. Signal strength 8-10 & quality 10 on all channels with no back signal from Sandy. After some investigation it appears that the old Logitech 8 way was failing and just happened to coincide with retunes & works at the transmitter. Brilliant aerial & not expensive. Once again thanks.
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Tuesday 16 October 2012 8:25PM
Saffron Walden
I live on the border of the Sandy/ Sudbury transmitters location CB10 2HB with the ariel pointing to Sudbury. I am now getting pixelation and signal loss apart from Ch58 on a new Panasonic TX-L42ET5B (which shows 100% signal strength but 10% signal quality on the problem channels), no channels apart from Ch58 on a Tvonics LT3 and no problems on the old Philips set top box or the Sony Bravia KDL-32S5500. Problems are intermittent mostly early evening and started happening about 2 weeks ago, everything AOK up to then. Any ideas?