TV Freeview picture breaking up, New 4G transmitter and Aeroplanes

[charles]

I had as colleague who reired about the time ch5 turned up. He applied for a job as a re-tuner and rejected because he was "too highly qualified".

[Bill Wright]

Although these built-in meters don't mean much that sounds dodgy to me. In general Humax DTT boxes need to be showing more like 90% to work properly (I was a Humax dealer before I retired).

Do you mean low down, relative to surrounding rooftops? Does it look over a main road?

What type is it? Who installed it? Does it have a masthead amplifier?

Bill

[Indy Jess John]

I have a 9120. It seems to cope OK with signal strength down to 75% on its own meter which rates my connection as somewhere between 78 and 82 usually. If it drops below 75 I get bits of a recording that skip on playback.

Jim

[Mark Carver]

Quite so. Though sat while on the beach at Southwold Suffolk in April, this is what my phone came up with, after a manual network search:-

[Big Les Wade]

And hey presto, just to make me a liar, tonight the problem has returned. The BBC 1 signal is suddenly unwatchable. After months of 100% signal strength and 85% signal quality, we are down to 70% signal strength and 40-50% quality, with the associated picture blocking and audio twonking. Other channels are not affected nearly as badly (thank God because it's Downton Abbey any minute now and I'd be sure to get the blame for it being unwatchable - well it's always unwatchable but you know what I mean).

Absolutely *nothing* has changed in my set-up. Absolutely nothing. We've been out all day so it can't be the wife hoovering and knocking the cables. It can't be trees, because they don't grow that much in 24 hours.

The one thing I suppose it might be is high barometric pressure, which we've got at the moment.

[Bill Wright]

It can be the trees you know. Oh, I could tell you a tale or two . . .

Bill

[Big Les Wade]

And an hour later it was all right again.

[Martin]

Downton Abbey is repeated on Saturday afternoons.

[tony sayer]

One the beach at Southwold!. Thats sacrilegious you should have been here:)

Rumour has it they have pipes across the road to the source of that nectar;)

[tony sayer]

In article , Big Les Wade scribeth thus

It is high your right, its 1043 here in Cambridge!.

[Martin]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Adnams+Plc/@52.327065,1.680082,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s11668310!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fstatic.panoramio.com%2Fphotos%2Fsmall%2F11668310.jpg!7i1843!8i1878!4m5!1m2!2m1!1sadnams+brewery+southwold!3m1!1s0x47da222290b01a0b:0xe47b0d276cbdb5df!6m1!1e1

[Mark Carver]

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Oh, don't worry, I dragged SWMBO off for a pint just after 11:00hrs here :-

[Bill Wright]

Does SWMBO stand for 'She who is extremely tolerant'?

Bill

[john west]

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Bright young Engineer arrived yesterday and said his meter reading strengths results were 'marginal'.

My aerial was at the gutter level on the second floor, he said he thought it should be higher. We have an old aerial already on the chimney which we have never used.

He connected a new cable and a filter to it and now everything seems just fine.

Looking back on the whole business our original aerial worked well, then because it all went bad i just assumed it was my fault somewhere, so I doubled checked all the connections and bought and installed a new aerial and some new leads.

Then 'after' doing this work i got a message come up on the television which after going on line to investigate further, informed me about new nearby 4G transmitter which could be causing problems.

How much less grief would have been caused if I had received some

*timely* notification of these 4G transmissions likely being the cause of my picture break up issues issues.

Thanks to all, for your contributions.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

That should have told you where the best place was. ;-)

[tony sayer]

Yep thats the place, well recommended a lovely little town Southwold is almost came a cropper there many years ago, pub first then the beach and showing off to new girlfriend and having a pig of a job to get back to shore very awkward currents!.

[tony sayer]

To the new aerial not the chimney one?.

This was the one up on the chimney that it was bought to replace?.

Humm... Do you know which transmitter your on the main Crystal Place station or the relay at Finchley seems odd that messages came up on the screen telling you that a local 4G was to start on a TX that covers most all of London and a way out. Do you get all the MUX'es your entitled to there or are some missing?.

Thats even if it was that it might well not have been.

[john west]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the aerial worked fine at gutter level until all the trouble started. he connected to the old one up on the roof. i dont connect at all to the relay transmitter.

[Yanni]

I’ve got the exact same thing going on. I live in isleworth near Heathrow Airport so pretty much the same place. How weird. It’s so annoying

[jon]

Many years ago when Hounslow was 97% white, I lived under the flight path to Heathrow and also had disturbance on the TV bands. This was long before UHF and mobile phones. I moved away in 1969 and not had any interference since.