Tinkering With Tacolneston?

Is there something speific going on that we haven't been told about,
or is it co-channel interference as described above?

Most of my channels show as 84-87% strength and 100% quality on my
(Humax) tv, not bad for an area which allegedly cannot receive
digital!

The Topfield is less optimistic, was showing around 72-74% strength
and 99% quality but is now showing only in the high 60s.

However

mux 2 (or is it B? anyway the one with ITV, E4/More4 etc.) still shows
the 60-80+% strength but the quality keeps dipping down from a max of
around 70% to 10% or even 0%

whenever that happens the picture pixellates up and becomes totally
unwatchable, and the Toppy recordings break up badly, once it got so
****ed off it rebooted and lost everuything else I was recording off
the good muxen fume

been occurring on and off for days but become much worse recently

Any ideas?

(analogue signals appear generally OK)

Albert Ross wrote:

been occurring on and off for days but become much worse recently

Any ideas?

See the 'Continental Interference', '17 New channels listed tonight',
and 'Sudbury ITV Channels deteriorated to nothing over last 2/3
evenings' threads in this group.

Plus:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/faqs/index.shtml#weather

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Mark
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:27:52 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Albert Ross wrote:

been occurring on and off for days but become much worse recently

Any ideas?

See the 'Continental Interference', '17 New channels listed tonight',
and 'Sudbury ITV Channels deteriorated to nothing over last 2/3
evenings' threads in this group.

Plus:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/faqs/index.shtml#weather

Yes I read them and wondered, seemed a bit odd though as it was
predominantly affecting just the one mux, and coming and going in
waves as if either someone was turning something on and off or it was
affected by something with timing, like an MHEG carousel, also the
analogue didn't seem affected.

obviously since posting the problem has disappeared, so . . . result!

(Completely off topic, excellent weather satellite photos here

http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp2.html

Albert Ross wrote:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:27:52 +0000, Mark Carver

Plus:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/faqs/index.shtml#weather


Yes I read them and wondered, seemed a bit odd though as it was
predominantly affecting just the one mux, and coming and going in
waves as if either someone was turning something on and off or it was
affected by something with timing, like an MHEG carousel, also the
analogue didn't seem affected.

obviously since posting the problem has disappeared, so . . . result!

You get all sorts of random effects. Of course the other muxes might
have been affected, but the level of interference didn't quite push
things over the 'digital cliff', so things appeared to remain normal
with them


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Mark
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:01:21 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Albert Ross wrote:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:27:52 +0000, Mark Carver

Plus:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/faqs/index.shtml#weather


Yes I read them and wondered, seemed a bit odd though as it was
predominantly affecting just the one mux, and coming and going in
waves as if either someone was turning something on and off or it was
affected by something with timing, like an MHEG carousel, also the
analogue didn't seem affected.

obviously since posting the problem has disappeared, so . . . result!

You get all sorts of random effects. Of course the other muxes might
have been affected, but the level of interference didn't quite push
things over the 'digital cliff', so things appeared to remain normal
with them

Yes could be, back in analogue days G when I lived near the south
coast and got a signal from Midhurst 30 miles away when we got
interference due to odball weather conditions it usually affected all
channels with horizontal lines and superimposed pictures and stuff,
the only time there was a distinct difference between channels was
when there was work at the transmitter and one (or more) channels were
on reduced power.

I'm relatively new to digital so I haven't yet learned how it breaks,
the only problems we've had so far have been occasional interference
probably from the central heating thermostat arcing (I'm waiting for
the electrician, or someone like him) and passing vehicles.

The main problems have been the low bitrate of some channels, and the
appalling quantity of crap being broadcast . . .