Mildly OT - freeview multiplex breaking up

You may recall a few months ago that I was having a PITA setting the digibox up in the new house.

It suddenly just started to work just fine. It's been fine for a few months now - albeit with bollock-all worth watching on, but I don't think we can blame the aerial for that...

Over the last month or so, though, one or more of the multiplexes will break down completely. Initially, the picture will crackle, block-up and halt briefly. Then the pic goes black, and "No or encrypted signal" pops up. Usually, it's BBC - all the Beeb channels plus one or two others are gone, but most of the rest'll be fine.

Eventually, it'll come back. Probably.

Talking to a neighbour, they have similar. "Only ever in winter".

What could it be? Transmission issue? Meteorological?

Reply to
Adrian
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If there's co-channel (or other) interference coming from a direction where there are trees in the path, reception will probably be worse in winter. This is not as uncommon as you might think. Less common is the odd situation where the trees are in the signal path but have a more deleterious effect when bare of leaves, or when the leaves have thinned out somewhat.

Bill

Reply to
Bill Wright

4G interference? There's a website
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which will apparently send you a free filter (according to the card they put through my door).
Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

In article , Andrew Gabriel scribeth thus

Can you either tell us where you are or the transmitter you use if you know which one it is...

Reply to
tony sayer

4G... Hahahahah... We barely get any phone signal. Data is GPRS at best.

(Sorry, Andrew - for some reason I missed your post)

In the hills near Hay on Wye. The transmitter is Much Marcle.

Reply to
Adrian

Hasn't there been threads about this either here or elsewhere maybe uk.telecom? in the past year about Hay on Wye having specific problems.

Manchester suffers tuning difficulties on lots of TV sets since digital D-day when they wound the wick up with a strong Welsh transmitter sat in a sidelobe for aerials pointed at Winter Hill. The real local channels can easily get consigned to the 800's on older Panasonic sets.

I've never had TDTV drop out without there being a power cut at the transmitter. DAB radio fails with monotonous regularity and a good rainstorm in summer when there are leaves on the trees ruins it.

Normally in winter you get better line of sight to transmitters although if it is ingress of moisture or spiders into cables and connectors then they are worse in winter.

Reply to
Martin Brown

There was my thread about lack of signal quality when we moved in, over the summer. Mebbe you half-remembered that?

Reply to
Adrian

Wasn't this where you had an existing aerial on the Ridge Hill TX but had a local relay that was only the restricted channel set and or only had the Welsh version of the BBC?..

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tony sayer

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