Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) DAB transmitter
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Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) mast?
Darvel transmitter - Darvel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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Darvel Freeview Darvel DAB Darvel AM/FM Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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Chris.SE7:31 AM
George :
You've posted on the DAB radio page, but no problem. We'd need a full postcode to look at you predicted reception but as your neighbour is having the same issues it's more likely the cause is there's some "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It has been particularly strong recently which can as you've discovered wipe out your reception. Climate change is likely to mean these sort of events could be more common.
Currently it may continue on and off for a day or two more.
Please note that this is an independent help site. You should not retune whilst you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this usually just clears the correct tuning and you have to repeat the retune when signals stabilise.
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