I deliberately waited until the analogue was switched off before sending my form back saying "don't need any help, thanks".
I'm not eligible for a freeby, so chose to provide my own box from Tesco as cheaper than the Scheme's Freeview option.
Had the Freeview not worked then I'd have gone for their Freesat package.
However the Freeview isn't as good after analogue switch-off as before.
Owain
One of the things that they rely upon heavily is that Tx power is going up considerably at DSO - Crosspool goes from the current
50W to 1KW which will give a signal voltage increase of something over 4 times which ought to clear the pixelation.However you do have a claim against the Digital Help Scheme as to say that if you can receive three muxes it is enough is not acceptable when the Tx you are using is radiating six! Furthermore three of the six muxes are and will be in aerial group B where existing analogue transmissions are in group A, so a wideband aerial will become mandatory.
You say that Ken has line of sight to Crosspool but from which direction? Crosspool has directional signals to avoid interference from other sites. Maybe he should be using a different transmitter?
Why not?
Without giving away personal details, his flat is on the south side of his block with a line of sight west-south-west straight up Upperthorpe (not Upperthorpe Road, the road called Upperthorpe) towards Crosspool, 1.5m Google Walking distance.
People keep coming to me with these things because I used to be the local councillor and "Jonathan knows TV things" having been a Channel 5 retuner doing the jobs too complicated for the swathes of electricians and decorators that made up the majority of the retuners back then.
JGH
Odd. I replied to this this morning.
His flat is > Failing that, a trip to the local MP surgery may invoke
People keep coming to me because I was one of their local councillors until a year ago, and because I did Channel 5 retuning work 15 years ago "Jonathan knows TV".
JGH
Sorry for highjacking the thread a little.
I was born in Jessop's and used to live at 46 Sherde Road. Upperthorpe was my growing up ground. Then we went to live at Intake. Once married, we lived at Crookes. Now living in County Durham. Such a pleasant surprise to see someone on the news groups from somewhere I know so well. Jim
Google groups have been having problems, resolved today according to:
More intermittent signal break-up. The received signal level seems okay, but it just seems a little less robust.
Loss of some channels eg ITV3 and QVC.
Owain
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