Effect of air Pressure on Reception

I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river severn
which has something like the second highest tidal rise and fall in the world
and was told a while ago that this is one of the reasons why our tv
reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the digital
picture disappears half way through a football game!!

Secondly, does anyone have any ideas on the best aerial to use to get the
best reception. We often get better digital reception on a small indoor
aerial than we do with a big wideband fixed aerial!

Finally (!), we can't get Sky (we've had three different people round
trying) as we live the wrong side of a steep hill and cable has not been
installed on our road, is there any likelihood of Sky locating a satellite
within our l.o.s. (westerly)?

Cheers for any help,

Matt

Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and
fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the
reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

I'll leave it to others to speculate about the effect of a large body of
water in close proximity to your aerial, but you've muddled the point rather
by mentioning air pressure in your title. That can have some influence on
the extent of the tidal rise, but is not a direct cause of it, as I'm sure
you know.

So is your bad reception correlated with the tides, or the air pressure, or
both? If so, in what way?

Pyriform wrote:
Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and
fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the
reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

I'll leave it to others to speculate about the effect of a large body of
water in close proximity to your aerial, but you've muddled the point rather
by mentioning air pressure in your title. That can have some influence on
the extent of the tidal rise, but is not a direct cause of it, as I'm sure
you know.

So is your bad reception correlated with the tides, or the air pressure, or
both? If so, in what way?

Kewstoke?

The satellites orbit round the equator so from England the dish has to
point southish.

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Pyriform wrote:
Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and
fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the
reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

I'll leave it to others to speculate about the effect of a large body of
water in close proximity to your aerial, but you've muddled the point
rather
by mentioning air pressure in your title. That can have some influence on
the extent of the tidal rise, but is not a direct cause of it, as I'm
sure
you know.

So is your bad reception correlated with the tides, or the air pressure,
or
both? If so, in what way?

Kewstoke?

The satellites orbit round the equator so from England the dish has to
point southish.

I thought the satellites were geostationary, i.e. stayed in a fixed place in
space.

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Pyriform wrote:
Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the
river severn which has something like the second highest tidal
rise and fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is
one of the reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

I'll leave it to others to speculate about the effect of a large
body of water in close proximity to your aerial, but you've
muddled the point rather by mentioning air pressure in your
title. That can have some influence on the extent of the tidal
rise, but is not a direct cause of it, as I'm sure you know.

So is your bad reception correlated with the tides, or the air
pressure, or both? If so, in what way?

Kewstoke?

The satellites orbit round the equator so from England the dish has
to point southish.

I thought the satellites were geostationary, i.e. stayed in a fixed
place in space.

Not fixed in space, but orbiting the earth in 24 hrs so fixed with
respect to the earth!

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Ashley
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Ashley Booth wrote:
I thought the satellites were geostationary, i.e. stayed in a fixed
place in space.

Not fixed in space, but orbiting the earth in 24 hrs so fixed with
respect to the earth!

Geosynchronous is the preferred term, to avoid such confusion.

Ashley Booth wrote:
The satellites orbit round the equator so from England the dish has
to point southish.

I thought the satellites were geostationary, i.e. stayed in a fixed
place in space.

Not fixed in space, but orbiting the earth in 24 hrs so fixed with
respect to the earth!

.... and this can only be achieved if the satellites are in an equatorial
orbit, at the appropriate distance.

SKY don't have their own satellites, they rent space on existing satellites
from SES and Eutelsat.


"Matt Bryant" wrote in message
...
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and fall in
the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the reasons why our
tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the digital
picture disappears half way through a football game!!

Secondly, does anyone have any ideas on the best aerial to use to get the
best reception. We often get better digital reception on a small indoor
aerial than we do with a big wideband fixed aerial!

Finally (!), we can't get Sky (we've had three different people round
trying) as we live the wrong side of a steep hill and cable has not been
installed on our road, is there any likelihood of Sky locating a satellite
within our l.o.s. (westerly)?

Cheers for any help,

Matt

To be perfectly honest I couldn't say what my bad reception is correlated
with however I could be watching a channel and it will progressively get
worse over say an hour or two having been fine for hours and end up at the
stage where there is no signal. When this has happened there has been no
noticeable change in the weather.

Maybe I should get a barometer and keep a log!!

As for the other question, I live at the Weston end of the toll road between
weston and Kewstoke. So get landed with no Sky, crappy digital reception and
welsh TV!

What effect does a large body of water have on reception then?

"Pyriform" wrote in message
...
Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and
fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the
reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

I'll leave it to others to speculate about the effect of a large body of
water in close proximity to your aerial, but you've muddled the point
rather by mentioning air pressure in your title. That can have some
influence on the extent of the tidal rise, but is not a direct cause of
it, as I'm sure you know.

So is your bad reception correlated with the tides, or the air pressure,
or both? If so, in what way?

Matt Bryant wrote:
I live right on the coast just outside Weston-super-Mare on the river
severn which has something like the second highest tidal rise and
fall in the world and was told a while ago that this is one of the
reasons why our tv reception is so changeable.

Is this true? It makes sense logically and would explain why the
digital picture disappears half way through a football game!!

Secondly, does anyone have any ideas on the best aerial to use to get
the best reception. We often get better digital reception on a small
indoor aerial than we do with a big wideband fixed aerial!

Finally (!), we can't get Sky (we've had three different people round
trying) as we live the wrong side of a steep hill and cable has not
been installed on our road, is there any likelihood of Sky locating a
satellite within our l.o.s. (westerly)?

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Peter Crosland