tv ariel

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:38:35 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be bob wrote this:-

and are the best sites for looking up the basics. Do that and come back with any more detailed questions you may have. At the moment any answer would be so general as to be pretty worthless.

In article , bob scribeth thus

1. Its Aerial;)..

What transmitter are you using?.

Where are you?.

Where is the aerial located i.e. Wall, loft, chimney?..

How far away are the trees and how high are they relatively?.

Any change of posting a few pix anywhere, often worth more than 10,000 words;)..

Don't know if anyone else has noticed, but our analogue (say when I want to watch analogue while recording digital or cable), has taken a marked decline recently. Once upon a time all channels were fine bar 5: now they are pretty well all as bad as 5 was. Looks to me like signals are being deliberately reduced to make people switch to all digital.

and do learn to spell Aerial differently from the Shakespearian character, and the soap powder.

I had to switch back to analogue to watch channel 4 on friday. Digital mux was crapped out that night. Sudbury TX.

In article , spamlet scribeth thus

No not the case, well no evidence of it anywhere.

Seems the whole is failing where you are!..

I cant help thinking there's an assumption there that the aerial is the problem, when its more likely to be something else. Co-ax terminations are frequent offenders.

NT

Antenna!

At least, the university research group is the Antennas Group...

That's a horrid septicism*

And really should apply only to yagis and other contorted stuff. A long piece of wire, is surely not an antenna!

Well, it derives from the Latin, so I think not.

Hmm, Probably rats or sheer weight of wood pigeons again then! Still I can't be bothered to chase it up when they are going to be shutting the lot down before long anyway...

Cheers, S

As is water in the co-ax, now that can cause some odd problems. Any idea which transmitter the OP is using at all?..

You on Crystal Palace by any chance? I thought it was just the trees growing!

Andy

Not sure: I'm in Luton but we get the 'London' channels.

that might well be sandy heath then..no..not if its london channels. Hmm. Could be you should be pointing at Sandy heath getting Anglia rather than Hemel Hempstead, which is piss poor power.

May Monsieur Sayer knows better?

I am. And was tending to agree with spamlet. Is there a current issue with CP?

Quite right.

But we are talking domestic here. And "antenna" in that context is yank so can't be right.

Latin...

I get a very strong signal and perfect reception of analogue/digital but only in winter. Come summer, an uncooperative tree, 1/2 mile away and in direct line of sight of the Emley Transmitter, grows a lot of those leaf things and wipes out nearly all the digital channels. (I can still get Tommy Walsh but that's pretty much all I'd be watching anyway :) An aerial rigger said the best I could do would be to try and reposition the aerial on another part of the house.