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Below are all of Phil's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.I think to show a diagram of the terrain between transmitter and receiver for a specific area is a great idea. Good reception always depends on line of sight distance from transmitter to receiver, and whether there is any high ground in between to reduce the signal.
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Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitteSaturday 28 January 2012 11:31PM
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Postcode WR10 2BP. Tuned to the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, and signal strengh is an average 51% on nearly all channels. What I want to know is why, when watching some channels, the sound and vision go completely out of syncro? It starts off OK but after a while you can sense the syncronisation is out of phase with the picture. Switching channel off, then back on again solves the problem for a while, but surely one should not need to do this to digital TV. Never had this problem with analogue, and yet they say digital is better. If I set my PVR to record a programme whilst I am in bed, how can I correct the sound syncronisation? At the end of the programme it would be out by as much as 5 minutes.
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Wednesday 31 August 2011 2:48PM
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Why is it that a friend whose postcode at Romsley Halesowen is B62 0PL can receive 85 non blocky Freeview channels prior to switch over using a bog standard mini aerial, and yet I who have a top of the range ultra high gain 52 element aerial can only receive 42 channels at postcode WR10 2BP? And of those 42 channels, BBC 4 is the only one that does not go blocky?
At the moment my digital signal strength is showing around about 37%, will that increase after switch over on 7 Sep? I am locked onto the Sutton transmitter. (B62 0PL)