All posts by Mike O'Sullivan
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my daugher has just moved in to a rented cottage in Calne, Wiltshire, (post code SN119PG). just got a Samsung TV and reception is sub-standard. She can't get BBC1 channel 1 at all and the BBC 1 & 2, 101 & 102 High-def channels frequently break up. It seems to me from your coverage maps that she should be able to get satisfactory reception, so I think it must be an aerial problem. She says it looks like an old one, probably been up for years. She described it as looking like an 8 element aerial.
Any opinion would be welcome.
Mike
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Thanks for the reply MikeP. She did say that the aerial seems rusty. I thought corrosion as a likely cause.
I gave the post code, it's SN119PG
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Thanks Dave Lindsey. I'll pass all this on to my Daughter. I appreciate the advice.
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thanks guys for the help. My daughter just emailed this to me, which explains a lot!
"David went up a ladder today to examine the connectors to the aerial and it appeared to be hanging on a thread and not earthed. He said he was amazed we had any signal at all. We certainly don't have many channels properly, including annoying ITV4 for the TdF.
I am going to call the estate office tomorrow and say that we really need them to get a new aerial or at the very least a new cable and connection. The previous tenants had Sky so wouldn't have used it..."
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after some renovation recently I had my very old FM aerial array, rotator and mast removed from my roof and had DAB and new UHF TV aerials installed. It would be good however to occasionally switch to FM reception for radio. Would it be feasible to run a feed from either of my rooftop aerials to my FM/DAB tuner, and if so - which one?
Thanks.
Mike
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Wednesday 15 April 2015 3:05PM
Please, where can I find the compression format and bitrate of a Freeview radio broadcast, with particular reference to BBC Radio 3 transmissions? Appreciate any help.
I'm on the Guildford transmitter if it makes any difference.