A good day for Freeview signals?
 

Marky P wrote:


I believe that you don't get bird flu by eating birds, just hanging
out with them.

Now why would you want to hang out with them? Unless of cause they are
the type without feathers and then you do nto catch birdflu from them, I
hope not anyway.

But you are correct, it is not possible to catch bird flu from eating
birds, but you know how some people panic in this country. Just look at
the way people are acting because of a little bit of snow.

A good day for Freeview signals?
 

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"Donald McTrevor" wrote:

Noticed that I am getting very good signals today.
I am wondering if this is due to the weather or the time of year.
I was thinking that perhaps with it being the 'holiday period' that
there was less 'electrical noise' about to disturb my weaker muxes.
I can even get a good signal on the Radio 5 live mux (BB4 etc) which
is nice (don't really watch anything on this mux normally) and I can
get a good signal on my radio for radio 5 live so I don't miss that
mux when it goes AWOL.
So is it the weather or the lack of 'industry' or other electrical noise.
Seems to be a cloudy wet day so my guess is that the
'electrical noise generators' are having the day off.



Weather

I took my Pace Twins Digibox from Sheffield to Woodhall Spa (Lincs)
for its hols.

Normally in Woodhall it will pick up a couple of the Belmont muxes at
best and analogue five is poor. This is because of the group A aerial
on my mothers roof.

However on December 27/28 analogue five was perfect and the digibox
was picking up 5 out of the six muxes plus mux1 from somewhere else.

Not only that Belmont mux 1 was registering at over 80% signal
strength as opposed to the usual 40%.

The elements of my mothers TV aerial were coated with frozen snow/ice
and it was very foggy.

On Dec 29th it thawed, the fog had gone and reception was back to
normal.



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