Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter

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9:28 AM

- BBC ONE Weak from 07:53 on 29 Feb to 16:39 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:18 on 27 Feb to 07:57 on 28 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:37 on 28 Feb to 07:53 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:57 on 28 Feb to 17:35 on 28 Feb Weak Si [BBC] Over the next week Crystal Palace main transmitter: TV (analogue) Possible weak signal, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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10:30 AM

- BBC ONE Weak from 09:01 today BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:53 on 29 Feb to 16:39 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:18 on 27 Feb to 07:57 on 28 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:37 on 28 Feb to 07:53 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:57 on 28 [BBC] Over the next week Crystal Palace main transmitter: TV (analogue) Possible weak signal, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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10:30 AM

- BBC ONE Weak from 09:01 today BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:53 on 29 Feb to 16:39 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:18 on 27 Feb to 07:57 on 28 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:37 on 28 Feb to 07:53 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:57 on 28 [BBC] Over the next week Crystal Palace main transmitter: TV (analogue) Possible weak signal, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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Martin Rosen

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12:03 PM

Hi. I am living in ( ). I recently bought a tv with Freeview and it brought in 115 .

I purchased Digital recorder and it has only '83' channels. Those that are missing include the HD channels.

Any thoughts?

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FJC Farrar

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12:06 PM
Camberley

Graham: Whatever the reasons for your now poor ; you are almost bound to be OK after the main which will take signals well above threshold. Unless you live at the topographically High end of Camberley; your Freeview signal right now is at best likely to be barely large enough & will be susceptible to every conceivable cause of drop-out or loss.

David: I agree that reporting absolutely definite, confirmed faults or questioning their possibilty continue as always to be like talking to the dead. It is virtually impossible to connect with anybody who has the slightest idea what they are talking about - which is infuriating. Nevertheless I still think it is premature to pursue your issue unless the technical problems persist after the Switchover process is completed & may even divert attention away from matters much worse than official obfuscation.

Tim: I do when you say the installer removed your Aunt's PVR, this didn't mean he took it away (ie stole it). Such schemes sadly have plenty of potential for rip-offs.

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FJC Farrar

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1:00 PM
Camberley

: DTV is inherently less susceptible than Analog. However DTV receivers & PVRs have much greater flat-out sensitivities than Analog TVs & CAN work well with signals only a fraction of a microvolt. However, we are surrounded with a whole world of things splurging out RF, and in lowish situations, these (such harmonics from a nearby pub's tills & fruit machines etc) can very easily produce in-band signals much larger than the TV signal. This has the effect of swamping DTV receivers by turning down their sensitivity by AGC action. So an interfering signal which in itself would not affect DTV simply "deafens" the to the wanted DTV signals. Even the existing massive analog signals can "deafen" DTV receivers in this way.
Because DTV is "all or nothing" & atmospheric conditions also vary the received TV signal a bit; reception already affected by interference can be variably lost with weakest MUXes/ most to be lost.
When powers substantially increase after & the analog signals disappear; DTV receivers find the wanted signals are much larger compared with all interfering signals - the interference is then submerged under the TV signal. Everything in the garden is then lovely......
UNLESS the new big signal just too much for sensitive DTV receivers - simply cured with attenuators but will surely trap the unwary.

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David
1:37 PM

I have just done another re- (at approx 13:25 on 3rd March) and pulled in 111 instead of the 53 I was getting previously. How long this will last until the is complete is anyone's guess. As FJC Farrer warned in an earlier post, levels can be up and down like a fiddler's elbow, and that has certainly been my experience.

I will pursue the issue regarding lack of information and accountability, however, because we should have been kept properly informed about what was happening. As usual, the people at the receiving end of a service are being made to serve the needs of the bureaucracy who are running it.

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FJC Farrar

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4:42 PM
Camberley

David: Best of luck. I fear your is fighting against the tide of an endemic cost-cutting Call-Centre Approach to everything:

Decent but deliberately totally untutored staff are cheaply employed to give human voice to FAQ & the blindingly obvious - confined by rigidly controlled scripts which sadly often force them to appear to be high-functioning cretins. They are also very forcefully discouraged from escalating anything to "waste the time" of a minimised number of expensive technicians & experts who - perhaps I am being cynical in suggesting this - could blurt out unpalatable or actionable truths whilst addressing genuine enquiries. Websites erect barriers/obscure useful contact information for similar reasons.

This has to be almost impossible to rectify. It has spread because it successfully & cheaply copes with a numeric majority of issues, which organisations can then loudly boast about - leaving only the detailed or major problems of a minority whose effect on the balance sheet is diddly-squat.

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Mr G Hyman
11:21 PM

My have all gone.
I live in NW5.
I have done full resets and rescans several times.

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4:31 AM

- BBC ONE Weak from 09:01 BBC ONE Weak Signal from 07:53 on 29 Feb to 16:39 on 29 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 17:37 on 28 Feb to 07:53 on 29 Feb Weak Signal from 09:03 yesterday BBC TWO Weak Signal from 07:53 on 29 Feb to 16:37 on [BBC] Over the next week Crystal Palace main transmitter: TV (analogue) Possible weak signal, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]