A friend on mine lives one mile from the Bluebird Hill transmitter, he's
had a loft aerial for as long as he's lived there (14 years) so no idea
how long before.

Picture quality erratic, freeview prone to breaking up, he says
neighbours also have problem.

His signal strength/quality on a new freeview box shows around 50+%, I
know a strong signal can cause problems but I would have thought the
strength would have shown higher and quality low if that was the problem.

Any ideas appreciated.

Season's Greetings to you all.

Geoff lane

In message , Geoff Lane
writes
A friend on mine lives one mile from the Bluebird Hill transmitter,
he's had a loft aerial for as long as he's lived there (14 years) so no
idea how long before.

Picture quality erratic, freeview prone to breaking up, he says
neighbours also have problem.

His signal strength/quality on a new freeview box shows around 50+%, I
know a strong signal can cause problems but I would have thought the
strength would have shown higher and quality low if that was the problem.

Any ideas appreciated.

Season's Greetings to you all.

http://www.aerialsandtv.com/digitalnationwide.html#B
"The transmitter has a complex radiation pattern, see table."
http://www.aerialsandtv.com/bluebell...llsDigitalTran
smissions
Could it be that they are in a notch/null?
--
Ian

"Ian Jackson" wrote in
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In message , Geoff Lane
writes
A friend on mine lives one mile from the Bluebird Hill
transmitter, he's had a loft aerial for as long as he's lived
there (14 years) so no idea how long before.

Picture quality erratic, freeview prone to breaking up, he says
neighbours also have problem.

His signal strength/quality on a new freeview box shows around
50+%, I know a strong signal can cause problems but I would
have thought the strength would have shown higher and quality
low if that was the problem.

Any ideas appreciated.

Season's Greetings to you all.

http://www.aerialsandtv.com/digitalnationwide.html#B
"The transmitter has a complex radiation pattern, see table."
http://www.aerialsandtv.com/bluebell...llsDigitalTran
smissions
Could it be that they are in a notch/null?
--
Ian



More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed) or
the TV has self-tuned onto the wrong station.

BH is on 24, 27, 39, 42, 45, and 59 at present.

At DSO2 (June 27th 2012) it will change to 28, 39, 40 (HD,) 43,
45 and 54.

A wideband antenna will be needed for present and post DSO.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In article ,
Woody wrote:

[Snip]


More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed) or
the TV has self-tuned onto the wrong station.


do tell us which main statons have changed



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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:01:51 -0000, Geoff Lane
wrote:

A friend on mine lives one mile from the Bluebird Hill transmitter, he's
had a loft aerial for as long as he's lived there (14 years) so no idea
how long before.

Picture quality erratic, freeview prone to breaking up, he says
neighbours also have problem.

His signal strength/quality on a new freeview box shows around 50+%, I
know a strong signal can cause problems but I would have thought the
strength would have shown higher and quality low if that was the problem.

Any ideas appreciated.

Season's Greetings to you all.

Geoff lane

The Transmission Antennas are in fact high up just along the M2, if he is
on Bluebell hill towards the bottom they are actually hidden from direct
view due to the steepness of the hill and the Woods.

Normal Google Satellite view
http://bit.ly/uRrA0v

Google Streetview looking uphill in the direction of the M2 with M20 at
your back.
http://bit.ly/uTdTrH

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Woody wrote:

More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed)

Could you list them for my records?

Bill

On 21/12/2011 22:44, Bill Wright wrote:
Woody wrote:

More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed)

Could you list them for my records?

Bill

Records? Now they did change polarisation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_cut_recording


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Geoff Lane wrote:
A friend on mine lives one mile from the Bluebird Hill transmitter, he's
had a loft aerial for as long as he's lived there (14 years) so no idea
how long before.

Picture quality erratic, freeview prone to breaking up, he says
neighbours also have problem.

His signal strength/quality on a new freeview box shows around 50+%, I
know a strong signal can cause problems but I would have thought the
strength would have shown higher and quality low if that was the problem.

Any ideas appreciated.

Assuming your friend isn't the chap that's started the following thread, there
looks to be a problem at BBH ?

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1604141

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Bill Wright wrote:
Woody wrote:

More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed)

Could you list them for my records?

The only recent one I can think of is Hoogersmilde in The Netherlands, though
it wasn't a great success

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nEYXOmWMRs

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"charles" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Woody wrote:

[Snip]


More likely aerial wrong polarisation (yes, some have changed)
or
the TV has self-tuned onto the wrong station.


do tell us which main statons have changed



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Bluebell Hill is a relay - to which I was refering - so I was not
commenting on main stations.


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Woody

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