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Andrew Oldacre here again - didn't realise the lack of info from me.
Postcode is PA64 6AP - like everone else in Lochdon. The signal is normally very good. My aerial is in the loft space, so will not have been adversly affected by any kind of weather. 'No Signal' has been intermittently on tonight - it's windy again - some sort of coincidence?
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Thanks for your comments Chris.SE
Unless there is a vermin problem, which is less likely, then I think tree growth may be the culprit. There are trees lining the other side of the road behind our house [between us and the transmitter, perhaps 30 metres away] that could be the problem. They're on private [don't know the owner] land unfortunately, so unlikely to be able to trim/fell them. There are some trees in our garden at the back; I'll have to look at the line of sight to see if that might be the problem too.
This has been going on for perhaps a year or more, and only in high wind do we loose signal. Between the aerial [quite inaccessable at my age in the loft] there is internal wiring to a splitter [Labgear] that feeds the main TV and then three other TV sockets about the house. The wind last night was pretty fierce; as it was when Storm Amy came in the other week; then we had an outage that lasted more than an hour at one point, with several smaller instances of 'No Signal' during that evening.
I did wonder if something up on the Torosay mast itself was to blame; that only occured during very high wind situations?
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Hi again Chris
I've had a look at the Labgear splitter. It is plugged in to an adjacent mains socket, but there are no types/serial numbers etc. to be seen, other than the word 'Booster'. It was installed when the house was built [2000] about five years before we bought the property. There are no controls for it; and I looked to see if there was a leaflet left by the previous owners [they were generally VG at that kind of thing, but in this case nothing].
Regarding signal strength/quality: When we get updates/new channels from Freeview I notice that there is a figure of 10 shown against each channel as it is displayed during the update. So I assume this is good. Otherwise I can see no way of checking this via my TV setup etc.
We're usually watching BBC 1 when this problem occurs, but then we rarely watch anything other than one of the BBC channels. We do record a lot, and then there is simply a break in the recording for two or three seconds. This shows visually as a frozen picture for a second or three, then continues as it should.
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Monday 6 October 2025 3:13PM
Over the past several months I've noticed the 'No Signal' banner, and a loss of picture and sound. [usually short duration] This has been worse when the weather has been very windy. Storm Amy took the transmission off air for a while on Friday [03/10/2025]. As this has been going on for several months, are there any planned works on the pipeline to fix it please?