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It is a communal ariel - which only the housing association owning the building have access to.
I did report a problem to them when this started 4 weeks ago but that was in response to it getting a lot worse and losing all reception for a couple of days (the ariel seems to get a problem and lose all reception every month or 2 - which seems unusual to me)
I don't really know the neighbours, some don't stay that long, many use satelite
(I did try changing the fly lead though didn't use any shielded)
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a quick thanks to jb38 as I was indeed having some problems from my digibox retuning to the wrong transmitter. when my reception of ch51 and ch52 is poor it sometimes retunes com4 and com5 to ch42 and ch45 (Tacolneston, perhaps).
I've retuned now (2 or 3 weeks ago) and keeping an eye in case it retunes again - but of course if the signal was good I wouldn't have the problem.
Quick update, I am in Peterborough (PE3), since early June my Com5 reception has been a couple of seconds of picture followed by longer gaps of no picture. Sometimes Com4 is affected too but the other muxes are fine.
But last week things changed ...and went on changing
Sunday was the same as it had been.
Monday, it was fine (except for occasional very small glitches)
Tuesday, the problem returned to com5.
Wednesday, occasional brief picture loss on com5 but the quiz shows on Challenge were watchable
after that ... virtually nothing on any of the com5 channels (so worse than before)
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Saturday 2 July 2016 9:58PM
Peterborough
I live in Peterborough (PE3 7EJ)
My reception to the Com5 (ArqA) freeview channels have had patchy reception for the last month
e.g. approx 5 seconds of picture then no reception at all for the next half-minute
other channels have occasionally had glitchy pictures and shortly after the problem started I also lost com4 for a few days but that came back COM5 seems to be my main problem
Please can you tell me if you have any ideas what may be causing the problem? is it atmospherics or could it be something else?
I had not installed anything new which could cause such interference but live in a middle floor flat and don't know about the people above and below