All posts by Nick
Below are all of Nick's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Mark: Hi guys, just to report, I'm having huge problems with channel 55 for the last few days, all muxes are 100% and off course as 55 & 56 are reporting lower power for 56 I still get pretty good signal and stable. Channel 55 however is dead most of the time with signal quality being down the pan and signal levels about the same as channel 56.
Why have these muxes gone right up into the 700Mhz band they never were and I thought the July engineering was for the start of the 700Mhz clearance.
I note there are no more planned engineering works for the week ahead at Sandy, does this mean we're stuck with this ?
I've still got the same hi gain wideband antenna I've always used and only 21 miles away from Sandy.
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PS. I get the high pressure system and currently note the current tropospheric forecast is moderate to strong, but I find it strange that only channel 55 is affected for me and also the same for another person back in July going back through the posts.
Just thought I'd mention that hehehhe
Kind Regards Nick
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Looks like the High pressure system is going back to normal. All good this morning after 4 days of mess, no errors and signal stable on 55. And yeah the weather has changed, it's bloomin cold out there this morning. Soon be Christmas folks hehehe
Nick
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MikeP: Hi Mike,
Since yesterday Com7 & 8 55,56 are really poor again, they were only stable for a day and one evening now their completely shot. DigitalUK reports variable reception for these now since July.
Before they moved frequency they were perfect like the rest.
My question is has the ERP changed for these since they were on channel 32 and 34 when I never had any issue with these muxes prior to the change. I see from Ofcom technical they are lower power compared to all the other muxes or is it combo of the higher frequency, lower power and me having to use a loft aerial because of strict local bylaws.
And my next question is if the ERP is still the same why are these muxes now so unstable after moving into the 700Mhz band when even SDN Com4 is on channel 51 714.004Mhz and as the others are rock solid on the lower frequencies?
I've even now have the aerial pointing slightly up which has improved strength but not stability I'm sure the roof tiles will be causing issues with deflection and a mass of trees out back.
I've found the exact compas bearing for the transmitter which has vastly improved signal and quality for the other muxes I don't have a problem with typically
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Sorry Mike the end of my post got cut off, if you or your colleagues do have any ideas I can try, or tips tricks I would be hugely appreciative. I'm quite tech savvy so don't worry about bombarding me with your tech hehehe
Thanks very much
nick
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Friday 12 October 2018 9:41PM
Hi folks,
Could someone clear a confusing issue I have, on this page the 700Mhz clearence was supposed to happen 30 June this year, I did however see on a lot of channels had the retune message if I remember around 30 July. This happened whatever it was and Retuned BUT I notice after retuning everything on all our boxes and tv's. SDN Com 4 is still on channel 51 instead of the new channel 33 as noted here. I'm getting a lot of noise on this mux and was hoping the move down would help.
Has the clearence been put back for Sandy ? I'm confuddled
Regards.
Nick