We are struggling wuth this highly complex in fo on bere.We are simple folk, we understand a bit about electroniks etc but cannot hack this site.Theres a moden tendacy to opt for complexity and our view is, its gonna go or has gone wrong.We bought a technica tv 32inch full hd with ordinary freev built in.We soon found alarming inconsistences re the sig strengths. some are 75%, others are zero but, though they are zero theres still a ! We had no idea that channels are piggy backed on frequencies, why should we??Any way weve found following channels are zero - 22/25. The channels 22 show a qual/sig strength of 9/0 but the channel 25 shows 89/0 (baffling). Weve tried bigger with about 22 elements but no luck.Our postcode is PO15 6RR. Springles lane hants uk.We already wrote that we are surrounded by huge oaks.But our next door neighbours seem to manage ok to get IOW trans ok.The ant is in and at mo theres no of outside position.The transmttr is only 27 miles away and we are on elevated ground with open access to IOW re height Before the trees grew the IOW could be seen .Theres few buildings round here as semi rural.What amazed us is when we accessed this site and tried to get the site details for this postcode with a blue line showing our acceess line no such page could be raised..Also when we checked the avail from the transmttr for us we find all the boxes only have an indicator band halfway across the box.!!. We also find the antenna type details/recommendations confusing as the indication is that suit antenna types appear to conflict and if we look on ebay theres no such antennas advertised and ebay is largest shop on the planet. This site,like so many, particularly anything to do with electroniks seems to be written by people who want to display their own grasp of the subject rather than align it with people who want to learn but dont have natural bent.We found that re electronics there was only one set books we understood and they were written for US serices during WW2.We wasted hundreds pounds on dozens books and worst of all blamed ourselves for being dumb.We reckon from what weve seen of teachers in schools the same thing is happening to children.So now what do we do.go back to .We never had this or any other problem then.And a not final comment- millions pounds been spent on all this technology and we switch the tv on and lo and behold there people with distorted face expressions firing machine guns/cars exploding in balls flame/peiople being stabbed/attractive women arguing with men/ and the words ,death,blackmail,violence repeated about a hundred times a week. We wont mention the politics.What a nitemare. And, by the way, no we cant afford a little ma with a multimeter to come round becase fior a start weve been conned by a builder and also have life threat illness and not forgetting weve had the police round here making violent threats cos the info we have about this/that.All we want at mo is our new week old tv to work ok surely thats a reasonabkle ambition. Nearly forgot- when we accessed the page which advises on antenna types we found it was out of date and some channels are not even mentioned,we also found that the ant recommendation coloured bars were vaguely colourded.What a nitemare.

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Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
Friday 27 September 2013 8:27PM

here we go again.3rd email.would not be surprised if they are deleted .after all, the political/legal/medical/priv ent is doing it why not this site.Anyway breakup yet 25miles from IOW tmttr which i think is 20000 watts or similar, % miles of the parh is sea. No buildings round here much.120 ft asl open aspect to IOW cept for trees which we avoid by going in between.Tried 3 ants, the last one cost 34 pounds.Got 71 eles.Still only half with zero often on some freqs .Have tried moving all over this place and even outside only get three LEDs on the sig meter.(cheapo 9.99). New downlead not crap.Tried horiz with a bit improvement.Tried prof sig meter made by Pye used by bbc. The only good signal is at 200/220 megs which i reckon is or something.WE JUST HAD A SHOCK TODAY- went over to neighbour 50ft away whose small bungalow is just off the signal path by about 20ft.Asked her do you get any tv signal probs as we could not see a gigantic yagi on the outside.She said no probs.We said how do you do it.She said look over there.On top of the c-heating radiator was a pound shop thing, its not an amp. To get there the signal passes thro 3 walls.Weve got 30pp notes made over a month to do with propagatio/ohms law/capacitance/impedance/ and signals/ construction/basic elektronics 6 vols/30 other books electronics/3 yagis/200 ft roll 75 ohm /uhf meter by lowe/a new 32in tv from tesco with an analogue built in 1080 resolution. The woman neighbour would not know or recog a sine wave from a lampost.So please explain the justice of life.If you can.Cos weve just about had enough.And the police violent threats dont either.Yours exhausted- (29/9/13) @20.14. Nearly Forgot- We are getting needle bending signals on 145 megs from IOW of only 100 w.And similar strength and more from portsmouth. They are using simple dipoles at ground level not 200 ft masts with 20000w so what heck is goin on.The antennas we use are not yagis they are a bit of 2meter long wire as a vertical.Same distance same trees same location same path.Better brains.??

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