Hi. I live in High wycombe area in an area to the west called Sands. My development of houses is built on a steep hill so I have no line of site to the main High Wycombe transmitter. The houses get analogue from a repeater station (vertical polarisation) which I presume is the West Wycombe transmitter.
All the houses use sky to get free channels at the moment.
My questions are:
1. Will the repeater station be set up to transmit freeview to us poor souls with no direct line of site.
ie how can I found out?
2. Alternative transmitters after switchover could be Hannington, Guildford or Crystal Palace. Is this realistic? If so, how can I tell if I have line of sight to these and the general signal level I'll receive.
I don't mind setting up a high gain group aerial on a tall mast etc.
3. Will I get the full range of freeview programs? Reading your site it seems that Freeview programs vary. I'm looking forward to getting DAVE, YESTERDAY and QUEST after DSO (which you can't get on sky FTA) but maybe I/we won't.
Thanks for your help.
Sunday 11 December 2011 9:07AM
High Wycombe
Hi. I live in High wycombe area in an area to the west called Sands. My development of houses is built on a steep hill so I have no line of site to the main High Wycombe transmitter. The houses get analogue from a repeater station (vertical polarisation) which I presume is the West Wycombe transmitter.
All the houses use sky to get free channels at the moment.
My questions are:
1. Will the repeater station be set up to transmit freeview to us poor souls with no direct line of site.
ie how can I found out?
2. Alternative transmitters after switchover could be Hannington, Guildford or Crystal Palace. Is this realistic? If so, how can I tell if I have line of sight to these and the general signal level I'll receive.
I don't mind setting up a high gain group aerial on a tall mast etc.
3. Will I get the full range of freeview programs? Reading your site it seems that Freeview programs vary. I'm looking forward to getting DAVE, YESTERDAY and QUEST after DSO (which you can't get on sky FTA) but maybe I/we won't.
Thanks for your help.