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Mike,
Indeed Ofcom do have the authority (if that's the right word) to request owners of any faulty equipment to have it fixed.
I guess we should have taken note that all the immediate neighbours have satellite dishes - and now we know why. It just didn't occur to us to ask about the TV signal strength when viewing the house!
The signal strength was measured by the Ofcom engineer both within the house and outside in the road. In both locations the strength was between 33% and 37% and way below what he expected for the area. He explained that with the signal strength so low there was insufficient headroom in the signal and therefore it would be prone to even the very slightest of interference.
Without a very significant increase of the signal strength - and thus more headroom in the signal, our viewing of analogue and digitial TV just isn't possible where we are.
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Friday 21 January 2011 4:14PM
Andover
We moved to Andover Hampshire in June of last year and since we have been in this house, we have had interference problems on all channels (digital and analagoue). We receive the signal from the Hannington transmitter.
Following many complaints to the BBC (who are now responsible for the reporting of Interference problems), OfCom attended site and did some signal measurements from our aerial and the results were extremely poor. The engineer also took independant measurements outside in the road using his own aerial and there was very little change - still bad.
His accessment was that because the signal is so bad, any nearby bit of electrical equipment (Boiler, room thermostat etc) could cause this interference.
What possible course of action can be taken to get this signal problem resolved and whom should I approach? The BBC? Arqiva? I object strongly to having to pay for a TV license when we are unable to watch any programme without losing the picture and sound mid-way through for 30 seconds or more.