A good day for Freeview signals?
 

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.

A good day for Freeview signals?
 

"Donald McTrevor" wrote in message
...
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.

Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period, the
broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for the extra
demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas they seem to
have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd advise anyone who values
their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator, otherwise the signal might well burn
it out.

Bill

A good day for Freeview signals?
 

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

"Donald McTrevor" wrote in message
...
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.

Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period, the
broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for the
extra demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas they
seem to have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd advise anyone
who values their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator, otherwise the signal
might well burn it out.

Bill

I've checked the date. It's not 1/4 ;-)

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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

"Donald McTrevor" wrote in message
...
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.

Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period, the
broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for the
extra demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas they
seem to have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd advise anyone
who values their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator, otherwise the signal
might well burn it out.

Bill

I've checked the date. It's not 1/4 ;-)

Nor is it, as the yanks would say, 4/1 :-)

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Bill Wright wrote:
"Donald McTrevor" wrote in message
...
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.

Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period,
the broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for
the extra demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas
they seem to have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd
advise anyone who values their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator,
otherwise the signal might well burn it out.

Bill

I think that you are only half right. Because there is usually a great
drain on the national grid on Christmas day due to so many turkeys being
cooked, all the power station generators are set to full output. However,
due to the bird flu scare this year, a lot of people are avoiding turkeys,
and so not so many ovens are being used. As a result, the mains voltage has
almost gone off the scale.

We are all lucky that any electrical equipment we have connected has not
gone up in smoke - not just the TV ;-)

--
Jeff
(cut "thetape" to reply)

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In article , Jeff Layman wrote:
Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period,
the broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for
the extra demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas
they seem to have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd
advise anyone who values their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator,
otherwise the signal might well burn it out.

Bill

I think that you are only half right. Because there is usually a great
drain on the national grid on Christmas day due to so many turkeys being
cooked, all the power station generators are set to full output. However,
due to the bird flu scare this year, a lot of people are avoiding turkeys,
and so not so many ovens are being used. As a result, the mains voltage has
almost gone off the scale.

No, I think you're both wrong. It's because at this time of year it is
customary to increase the intake of fluids that kill brain cells, thus imbuing
even the grottiest television pictures with a rosy glow of acceptability, and
encouraging the free flow of unrestrained ideas in newsgroups. :-)

Rod.

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from "Jeff Layman" contains these words:

Bill Wright wrote:
"Donald McTrevor" wrote in message
...
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.

Because more people are at home to watch TV over the holiday period,
the broadcasters adjust the signal voltage upwards to compensate for
the extra demand. However, because TV had been so crap this Christmas
they seem to have overdone it. Looking at what's on tonight I'd
advise anyone who values their TV set to fit an 18dB attenuator,
otherwise the signal might well burn it out.

Bill

I think that you are only half right. Because there is usually a great
drain on the national grid on Christmas day due to so many turkeys being
cooked, all the power station generators are set to full output. However,
due to the bird flu scare this year, a lot of people are avoiding turkeys,
and so not so many ovens are being used. As a result, the mains
voltage has
almost gone off the scale.

We are all lucky that any electrical equipment we have connected has not
gone up in smoke - not just the TV ;-)

Hmm, nope! It's _still_ not April the first! (aka 1st of April). Isn't
it lucky that the emergency phone number in the UK is 999 and not 911
(or 119 even)?

Apropo, mains supply trouble, the local substation here had taken to
generating dips and the occasional brief brownouts during a 24 hour
period starting last Friday afternoon.

The most irritating aspect of this was that I had hopes it would turn
into a more definite fault that would force the issue re 'immediate
attention' and let me enjoy a few hours of smugness. All that happened
was an ongoing reminder by the UPSes and the fluorescent light in my
office of the shorter breaks, which simply petered out by the late
afternoon on Saturday.

I guess I did get some ROI out of the UPSes in that none of the
computers missed a beat during events that would otherwise have kicked
off a reset condition by the PSU's Power Good signal.

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Jeff Layman wrote:


I think that you are only half right. Because there is usually a great
drain on the national grid on Christmas day due to so many turkeys being
cooked, all the power station generators are set to full output. However,
due to the bird flu scare this year, a lot of people are avoiding turkeys,
and so not so many ovens are being used. As a result, the mains voltage has
almost gone off the scale.

We sold more Turkeys this year than we sold last year, so people not
buying turkeys because of bird flu is not true.



We are all lucky that any electrical equipment we have connected has not
gone up in smoke - not just the TV ;-)

A good day for Freeview signals?
 

Due to the "digital cliff" effect, particular muxes can come and go,
depending on time of day and weather, especially if you're on the edge
of the reception area!

see: www.dtg.org.uk/publications/books/r_book2.pdf .

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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:13:52 +0000, AD c wrote:

Jeff Layman wrote:


I think that you are only half right. Because there is usually a great
drain on the national grid on Christmas day due to so many turkeys being
cooked, all the power station generators are set to full output. However,
due to the bird flu scare this year, a lot of people are avoiding turkeys,
and so not so many ovens are being used. As a result, the mains voltage has
almost gone off the scale.

We sold more Turkeys this year than we sold last year, so people not
buying turkeys because of bird flu is not true.



We are all lucky that any electrical equipment we have connected has not
gone up in smoke - not just the TV ;-)


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

Marky P.

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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.

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In message
"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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