All posts by Mark G
Below are all of Mark G's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Hi Briantist,
Do you know why this is so? As I posted, I had perfect reception for the last 3 years - despite theoretically being 'out of area'. Certainly nothing local (trees etc), and too much of a coincidence that I have a problem as others post similar issues...
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Hi Gary,
Did Mux 2 work for you previously? If so, you're suffering the same as me - I am convinced something has changed recently for this Mux from Hannington. As Briantist said above, could be a consequence of other switchovers, but I'm thinking it also could be related to recent engineering work, perhaps something subtle changed at the mast for this Mux, even perhaps relating to the already-present 'null' which maybe now harsher for this than others Muxes...
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Thanks Briantist - I didn't know that! Any idea why the ones there are 'public' yet Hannington does seem to be 'secret'?
Looks like each channel is configured independently, so maybe for other switchover-related reasons they purposefully adjusted the pattern for Mux 2. I noticed on the postcode prediction that there are some 'change' events later this year, that don't materially change my reception prediction - any idea what they are?
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Mike,
Thank you so much for your incredibly helpful and very interesting post. That's exactly the info I was interested to know about the changes coming over the next year.
More importantly - I'd never even thought of turning down the gain on my variable mast amp. I just did that, and magically I now have good quality reception on all muxes, with a very strong signal on the recently unreceivable Mux 2! Oddly, back in 2007 I had pretty rough reception without strong amplification, so I guess other things have changed in the meanwhile. Looks like I was indeed getting analogue overload somehow after the recent Hannington mast improvements.
Many thanks for all the help here - much appreciated. I'll try later completely removing the amp (I just turned down the gain a bit for now) - but am conscious that when it's not beautifully sunny I may need just a little amplification anyway.
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Saturday 16 April 2011 7:11PM
Camberley
I am in Camberley, and despite this being theoretically out of range, with a quality amplified roof antenna I had near-perfect reception on all muxes from 2007 until last month. I assume something has changed during the recent maintenance - certainly Mux 2 is now unavailable for me, and even Mux 1 (the strongest I have) is not perfect.
I am hopeful that there is still something happening that will be 'corrected' soon, otherwise it will be a long wait until the switchover...