TV Alert pre 2017

Stay on Channel 4 after the control tower program, and you can watch a repeat of Guy Martins Spitfire

Kevin

Anyone else experiencing problems with TV signals recently? Since going 100% digital you either have picture and sound or you don't, luckily most of the time it works. Currently today has been the worst of the last few days though with blank screens and no sound and sometimes displaying a weak signal message. At least with analogue you just got a degraded picture!

Peter wrote:

Anyone else experiencing problems with TV signals recently? Since going 100% digital you either have picture and sound or you don't, luckily most of the time it works. Currently today has been the worst of the last few days though with blank screens and no sound and sometimes displaying a weak signal message. At least with analogue you just got a degraded picture!

If you know what transmitter then check it here .

If you do not then enter your postcode here and see if any known problems - they seem to now refer to 'reduced power' as reduced quality'.

I have been told it is the weather as it is happening to others, though most seem to be on sat or cable! Clear and sunny must be bad for TV, High pressure perhaps?

Peter wrote:

I have been told it is the weather as it is happening to others, though most seem to be on sat or cable! Clear and sunny must be bad for TV, High pressure perhaps?

I haven't looked at the weather chart but settled periods with large high pressure areas can be good for long distance UHF propagation which can be bad for TV reception if a distant station starts causing interference either to your direct reception or into the relay station. But it is also a good thing to blame bad reception on!

I think even small relay stations now have telemetry so they should be aware of many faults but you tend to find that you get a tendency to believe the system rather the person saying that reception is poor or no reception.