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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington transmitter which serves 470,000 homes.

Other maps:Hannington DABHannington AM/FMHannington regionBBC SouthMeridian (Thames Valley micro region)

Radiation patterns

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The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.

Hannington transmitter Freeview broadcasts

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below. The rating shown takes in account the output power level and the various Freeview transmission modes and do not indicate an ongoing fault.

MuxEffective power level, aerial positionRatingModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal
Maximum64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s
DVB-T MPEG2		50,000
Channel icons
1 BBC One South, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C45 (666.0MHz) from 362m datum.
PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal
Maximum64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s
DVB-T MPEG2		50,000
Channel icons
3 ITV (Meridian (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast),
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C42+ (642.2MHz) from 362m datum.
PSB3
BBCB
 horizontal
Maximum256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s
DVB-T2 MPEG4		50,000
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C39 (618.0MHz) from 362m datum.
COM4
SDN
 horizontal
Above average64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s
DVB-T MPEG2		25,000
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 22 others
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C41+ (634.2MHz) from 362m datum.
COM5
ArqA
 horizontal
Above average64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s
DVB-T MPEG2		25,000
Channel icons
 TV News,  TV Stars, 11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, plus 9 others
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C44 (658.0MHz) from 359m datum.
COM6
ArqB
 horizontal
Above average64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s
DVB-T MPEG2		25,000
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 21 others
• as a digital multiplex transmitted on frequency C47 (682.0MHz) from 359m datum.


Regional news from the Hannington transmitter


BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.5m homes 1.8%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south
to ITV Meridian (Thames Valley) region - 9 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

years1984-971997-981998-20122012-132013-182013-18
aerial groupEEEB E KB E KW
600C32com7
C34com8
C35C5C5
C39BBC1BBC1BBC1BBCBBBCBBBCB
C40+A
C41+D+SDN+SDN+SDN
C42ITVITVITV+D3+4+D3+4+D3+4
C43+2
C44+CArqAArqAArqA
C45BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCABBCABBCA
C46+B
C47ArqBArqBArqB
700C501
C51local
800C66C4C4C4

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 8th February and 22nd February 2012.

  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Reading could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Hannington transmitter using C51
  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Basingstoke could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Hannington transmitter using C51
  • COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16. COM9 UK-wide SFN

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
com7, com8, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

History of Channel 3 in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.


Your comments: most recent posts are at the bottom

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Your comments are always welcome. Please use the form below to add your thoughts or questions to this page. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

Keith Sheppard
Thursday 9 February 2012 9:49AM
I'm on the boundary between Crystal Palace and Hannington. My aerial is pointing at Crystal Palace and therefore I get my digital TV from London. However, I do like to switch to BBC South for local news.

Now that the Hannington signal has been boosted I find I can pick up the BBCA multiplex from Hannington on C45. That's despite my aerial pointing the wrong way and possibly being in the wrong group (not sure on that last point).

My Humax VCR did exactly what I wanted. I did a manual tune on C45 and BBC South (plus others) appeared as logical channels 800 et seg. Perfect. I can watch London most of the time and select Southern when required.

Less luck on the upstairs TV, though. There I have a cheap Xenta digibox. I tried the same procedure, manual tune on C45. It found the Hannington channels but put them onto LCNs 1 etc., displacing the BBC London channels up to the 800 range. That's despite the fact that the box reports a marginally stronger signal from CP then Hannington. I tried deleting the 800+ channels and doing a manual retune on C25 (where BBC London lives). No luck. It still chooses to put the BBC London channels up in the 800s and keeps BBC South as LCN 1.

Any suggestions how I can pursuade my box to put BBC South as LCN800 and keep BBC London as channel 1?
DaveG
Thursday 9 February 2012 9:51AM Camberley
Frimley GU16 7DX. I have two aerials, one pointing at Crystal Palace and one at Hannington, two digital TVs and one Freeview box. Pre DSO no digital signals from Hannington. Crystal Palace on Freeview box, MUXA, MUXB, MUXC usable, MUX1 iffy, no MUX2. TVs no MUX1 or MUX2. On 8/2/12 I did a manual retune of Freeview box on Hannington BBCA (Ch45) with good results. I believe 'notch' has gone. TVs still not seeing Hannington - probably inferior tuners!.
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 9 February 2012 10:33AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 today to 04:34 today BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 yesterday to 01:28 today BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 yesterday to 13:55 yesterday Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 yesterday to 03:03 yesterday BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 yesterday to 01:28 today BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 today to 04:34 today [BBC]
KMJ,Derby
Thursday 9 February 2012 10:36AM
DaveG: Your experience with reception from Crystal Palace is in accordance with the predictions on the Digital UK postcode checker. After switchover you should have good reception on the PSB muxes, the COM muxes however could be seen as deteriorating by way of reliable reception despite the transmitter power being increased to 200kW on each mux. Hannington is shown as not giving any reception before DSO, but is expected to give good reception on all muxes after full power working is adopted, so you get C45 now (BBCA), with D3+4 and MuxHD following on 22nd February 2012. SDN switches to full power on 4th April 2012, with ArqA and ArqB following on 18th April 2012. Regarding the TVs not seeing Hannington, if they are older receivers check that they are not on the list of equipment that does not support the 8k mode.
Gh
Thursday 9 February 2012 11:47AM Camberley
Hi folks still no further forward tried the full rescan turned off the rf from sky box and still no itv 4 or5 etc. if it is only bbc channel/mux that were affected by dso why did i have these chamnels on tuesday evening but not now. Will things improve on second dso or should i try and find a good aerial contractor. Help!
Rgs
colin
Thursday 9 February 2012 12:05PM Farnborough
my aerial is on the roof but the signal strength is only 50per cent I hoped this might increase as the free-view signal still causes the picture to break up
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 9 February 2012 12:31PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview - No problems - BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 today to 04:34 today BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 yesterday to 01:28 today BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 yesterday to 13:55 yesterday Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 yesterday to 01:28 today BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 yesterday to 03:03 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 today to 04:34 today [BBC]
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 12:50PM Fleet
Gh: Your problem is not the aerial. It's just that you are picking up some signals from the wrong transmitter. As DSO progresses and the power is increased, more distant transmitters become receivable which perhaps were not when you previously tuned your receiver. Without knowing your location, it's difficult to suggest a method to scan channels from only the correct trasnmitter. Manually tuning 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46 will give only Hannington channels (until 22nd Feb).
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 12:54PM Fleet
The multiple Transmitter Engineering messages are very confusing as they seem to be mixing up today with yesterday. This is not helpful.
Mike Dimmick
Thursday 9 February 2012 1:00PM
Gh: You're in the 'Guilford Notch', an area where digital signals from Hannington were severely reduced to avoid affecting the analogue transmissions from Guildford, which use the same channels as Hannington's low-power signals.

For you, the difference between the old and new power levels is not 4 dB (2.5x). It's 26 dB (nearly 400x). Many boxes will be 'desensitised' if receiving a loud signal on one channel - it affects adjacent channels most, but nearby channels are also affected.

You will have to wait until 22 February to get ITV/C4/C5 and the other channels listed under Multiplex 2 back. The commercial channels will remain restricted until Guildford switches over: the ArqA multiplex will be derestricted on 4 April and finally SDN and ArqB on 18 April.

It's likely that you had a very big aerial and probably additional amplification to get digital from Hannington at all, before now. It's very likely that you will have too much signal after one of those dates - you will probably need to remove the amplification. Too much signal causes distortion, which causes a lot of errors, often too many to be corrected.
KMJ,Derby
Thursday 9 February 2012 1:01PM
Gh: Unless the aerial is obviously defective it is best to avoid having aerial work done until the full DSO process is complete, which in the case of Hannington ( and coincidentally Crystal Palace) is 18th April 2012. At present you are only predicted to be able to (reliably) receive Mux BBCA, with Mux D3+4 and MuxHD becoming available on 22nd February 2012. The COM muxes will adopt full power working on 4th April (SDN) and 18th April (ArqA and ArqB). If your receiver permits manual tuning try doing a factory reset, then manually insert C43 to see if it will still find and store low power Mux2. Do the same for C40 C41 and C44 before entering C45. Also check that all connectors are in order and not losing any signal through poor contact.
Mike Dimmick
Thursday 9 February 2012 1:06PM
Andy Fraser: "Transmitter Engineering" simply scrapes the BBC's Reception Problems wizard - click 'BBC Reception Test' next to your post. The BBC keep about a week's worth of data but show it as 'today', then 'yesterday', then as a date. "Transmitter Engineering" posts a new comment if the text changes, which means that it will post essentially the same information at least three times: on the date it occurred, the day after it occurred, and two days after.

I don't know if Briantist could clean it up so that "Transmitter Engineering" converted 'today' and 'yesterday' to dates, before comparing. It would be clearer if they were posted as dates. It would also be clearer if each item was on a separate line, rather than all being run together.

It also scrapes Digital UK's Planned Engineering Works page at www.digitaluk.co.uk link icon 
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works .
Briantist
Thursday 9 February 2012 1:15PM
Andy Fraser: The engineering information is provided by the BBC, the wording is theirs and they do not wish it to be changed in any way.
KMJ,Derby
Thursday 9 February 2012 1:18PM
Gh and DaveG: After reading Mike's post above I checked and discovered that it is C44 that is released by Guildford on 4th April 2012, so as Mike said Mux ArqA will switch to full power on that date, with SDN and ArqB following on 18th April 2012.
trevor
Thursday 9 February 2012 2:01PM
retuned the digital tv, got my bbc 1 and 2,
now I have lost itv1,ch4 and ch 5, which i had perfectly before the switchover
Gh
Thursday 9 February 2012 3:10PM Camberley
Hi andy my location is frimley green gu16 6lp with signal from hannington. To get hannington before dso you are right i do have a variety of amplification and splitting going on. Can you advise as how to tune manually for the itv,4,5 etc channels. Would an over amplified signal show as either" low or no signal" when i check strength rgs
DaveG
Thursday 9 February 2012 3:40PM Camberley
KMJ,Derby: re Freeview in Frimley. Thanks for your comments. My Freeview box and TVs are all latest spec. I have a suspicion that some aerial leads could be lossy. I will wait until Hannington is at full power on all new MUXes before I investigate fully. No hurry as I have Virgin cable, but I do want to continue watching South Today (BBC 1 South not on the Guildford hub)
Kieran R
Thursday 9 February 2012 4:29PM London
hello im confused my aerial is pointing to hannington but some channels come up as london instaid of Berks & north-hants is this interferance.
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 4:53PM Fleet
Gh: For the ITV, Ch4, Ch5 etc. manually tune to 43. You will probably need to delete any existing ITV, Ch4, Ch5 etc. channels first.

Alternatively, if possible do a factory reset, pull out the aerial lead and start the scan, just before ch.40 (or about 1/3 through the scan) replace the aerial connection. This will prevent it from finding Crystal Palace channels.
chris dare
Thursday 9 February 2012 5:35PM
i currently have a non digital tv put through a digibox but the reception is dreadful, the picture breaking up into pixels, etc. will it be any better when i get a new flatscreen? or is it my box a Mico STB238?
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 5:42PM Fleet
chris dare: It's most likely an aerial or cabling problem. What is your postcode?

Reception on all channels will be better after the switchover is complete.
Gh
Thursday 9 February 2012 5:56PM Camberley
Hi andy thanks very much for the info. I am an impatient so and so but appear to have cured my short term probs with the purchase of a labgear mast head amp just below the aerial in the lof before my distribution ampt. It seems to have lifted the signal enough for now. Hope that by the end of the month i might be able to rationalise my installation a bit.
The info on the forum is really good thsnks again
tim w
Thursday 9 February 2012 6:06PM
Hi, we live in Fleet. Having had zero digital signal that the TV can find since we moved in; on the first switch over date we suddenly got all the BBC channels.

That was great, but today we are finding that we have zero channels again. Some people appear to have some similar problems, is there work being done and it will reappear later?
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 6:16PM Fleet
tim w: I am also in Fleet. I have not seen any signal problems with the BBC channels today (plenty yesterday). I have 100% signal level and quality as I type this.
tim w
Thursday 9 February 2012 6:24PM
We actually live down the road in church crookham. It seems to be a blank spot as far as digital is concerned.

We had perfect signal on all the bbc channels but now have zero
Mike Dimmick
Thursday 9 February 2012 11:01PM
tim w: The low-power digital channels had, and continue to have, a severe restriction in your direction (officially, you were actually not in the coverage area for digital). That means the power increase at switchover, as high-power services start, is not a measly 2.5x but up to nearly 400x. This may mean that you now have too much signal on the BBC multiplex.

If you have an amplifier or booster, try unplugging it or turning it down. You may find that the gain just from the aerial is too much - if so, you should try adding an attenuator.

High signals on one channel may desensitise the receiver, meaning it can no longer pick up the other very much quieter digital signals. The Multiplex 2 group should return after the second stage of switchover, on 22 February, along with the HD channels. The other channels will remain restricted until after Crystal Palace switches over - everything will be derestricted on 18 April (one group is expected to be derestricted on 4 April).
Andy Fraser
Thursday 9 February 2012 11:02PM Fleet
tim w: As I have seen no problems with BBC channels today, I think you have a connection problem or the channels you tuned were not stored correctly. Check the 800+ numbers.
Mike Dimmick
Thursday 9 February 2012 11:04PM
Kieran R: Your box may be one which uses the dumb tuning algorithm - store the first version that it finds, when scanning from lowest to highest frequencies. The weather is causing distant transmissions to come in stronger, and presumably the box has stored Crystal Palace transmissions rather than Hannington.

See Digital Region Overlap for thoughts on how to work around this problem.
Alan Baker
Friday 10 February 2012 5:40AM
Hi, why is Hannington tramsmitting 3 BBC channels on 2 muxes as the moment ? Four, Parliament and Cbeebies is on the 666 & 674Mhz channels. Seems a waste of bandwidth.
Matt
Friday 10 February 2012 8:22AM
Alan: The Switch-over is still in progress, this will change on on the 22nd at second stage. Rome was not built in a day.
Dave Lindsay
Friday 10 February 2012 9:40AM
Alan Baker: Further to Matt's response, see the list of Freeview multiplexes. BBC Parliament and BBC Four/CBeebies move at switchover to a single BBC standard definition multiplex (BBC A).
Dave Lindsay
Friday 10 February 2012 9:50AM
Alan Baker: Here's the list I mentioned:

Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Colin
Friday 10 February 2012 10:10AM
Hi
I have a problem with the BBC news Channel on Freeview Channel 80 after about 5 secs the channel switches to BBC1. I have hard reset and re-tuned the digi box (a Sony VTX-800U) several times all with the same result. Any advice would be good
Richard
Friday 10 February 2012 11:10AM Hungerford
I'm in Lambourn, RG17 8FA.
Since the switchover I think I'm suffering from too strong a signal - one Panasonic box thinks an awful lot about channels 40-c.46 but registers no channels. Other boxes report signal strength 10. I do have an amplifier, but of course its also a splitter (I need 3 feeds). Can you get splitters that aren't amplifiers, or do I just need to install a couple of simple splitters in series to by-pass the amp?
Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 February 2012 11:28AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 today to 04:34 today BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 yesterday to 01:28 today BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 yesterday to 13:55 yesterday Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday [BBC]
Dave Lindsay
Friday 10 February 2012 11:38AM
Richard: Yes, you can get non-powered splitters:

www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers

You could try disconnecting the amp and connecting the aerial to one TV and see if it improves matters.
Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 February 2012 12:35PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 February 2012 3:41PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb [BBC]
tim w
Friday 10 February 2012 4:23PM
Hi, thanks for the suggestions. We actually changed nothing with the cabling between when it worked and now that it doesnt, so I am not sure how it can be that. We have two devices: a TV and a freeview recorder.

At no point did we get the TV working but we were assuming that was something to do with how we had the system set up. The recorder though is the interesting one- we only got freeview channels for the first time on the switch over date. We have no amplifiers or splitters. The strange thing currently is that while it still claims to have no signal it always knows what program is on (though this might be residual).
We had perfect signal for several a few hours before loosing it again (indeed it was better than I ever remember)

Any thoughts would be appreciated
jb38
Friday 10 February 2012 4:31PM
Richard: If you simply have a powered splitter then the amplification obtained from these devices is minimal and as such they can really be looked at as a no-loss splitter, however this may still take the signal over the top if its already very high, so all you require to do is fit an attenuator in line with the splitters input
and that will retain the isolation the outputs have from each other in the same way as at present. (this always being desirable)

I would suggest about a 10dB attenuator should suffice, although variable types are the best as you can trim them to exactly whats required, albeit of course that they are not precision devices and tend to be a bit crude when adjustments are being made. (have to be adjusted really slowly).
Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 February 2012 4:36PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 February 2012 8:29PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview - No problems - BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 yesterday BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 yesterday to 04:34 yesterday [BBC]
tim w
Saturday 11 February 2012 12:45AM
Hi, just thought I would say- its back! there must have been some change at the other end, as we are back to full strength on all bbc channels (BBC mux). Not sure what happened over the last few days. Roll on completion of the switchover
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 11 February 2012 4:30AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 11 February 2012 9:28AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview - No problems - BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal; DSO related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 13:46 on 08 Feb to 13:55 on 08 Feb Analogue BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 08 Feb to 03:03 on 08 Feb [BBC]
tim w
Saturday 11 February 2012 1:49PM
There must be something going on with the transponder relay at hannington. We have lost all channels again.

Signal was bad this morning, kept breaking up but we were getting something. Now we are back to 0 signal on all channels. Will assume that come the second switchover date this problem will cease
Andy Fraser
Saturday 11 February 2012 1:59PM Fleet
tim w: I think something else must be causing this. I am just down the road from you and the signal has been 100% since the teething problems on 8th February. I suspect a connection problem somewhere in your aerial system.
jb38
Saturday 11 February 2012 5:26PM Fleet
tim w: You have to appreciate another point concerning the reception problems you are experiencing, insomuch that using Church Crookhams Ridgeway Parade Post Office as a test code of GU52 6NY (yours being unknown) the DRG's reception predictor quite clearly indicates that at present its only possible to receive the BBC Mux and no others, not even with the status of poor.

Reception predictors by the very way they collate and display the information always have elements of potential inaccuracies in what they might forecast, as they cannot take into account any local difficulties that might cause obstructions to the signal path, but when it predicts that its only possible for one multiplex to be received this generally indicates that the area referred to is liable to be of a nature where moving only a few yards or so can result in large variations in signal strength, this possibly why Andy Frazer seems to have reasonable reception whereas you haven't.

However on April 12th all multiplexes are indicated as being OK on the test code used, although as a guide on what to expect come that date use BBC1 as its presently operating on its final power, as will the ITV and the HD service be on Feb 22nd when they also join BBC on high power.

This said of course excluding any possible deficiencies that may (or may not) still be in existence connected to mast feed problems at the station.
Andy Fraser
Saturday 11 February 2012 6:42PM Fleet
I have more than reasonable reception on BBC A in Fleet. I tried adding a 12dB attenuator this morning and the signal level still showed 99%.

My postcode (about a mile from tim w) also predicts no reception on other muxes, but I have had adequate reception on all channels for many years.
jb38
Saturday 11 February 2012 9:17PM
Andy Fraser: Yes maybe so, but thats what I meant about large changes in signal strength being possible over relatively short distances when dealing with locations not really officially predicted to receive any signals of any substance, as in areas like that a person on one side of the street can enjoy great reception whilst the person facing from across the street doesnt.

If you were indeed receiving a good signal "prior" to switchover even with the transmitting masts restriction towards the East and which might possibly has been removed now, then you must be fortunate enough to reside in a "gifted spot" for the RF signal path, and its situations like that which would make it interesting to observe the readings obtained from a field strength meter in a service vehicle whilst driving between your location and tim w's, as I am sure there would be some erratic movements seen on the scale.

I am not of course saying that tim w doesnt have some intermittent fault with his aerial / connections, but just pointing out the facts of whats officially stated as the situation regarding reception in that particular area, as even although slight variations in whats actually obtained always exist the predictions given cannot be totally be discounted.
tim w
Saturday 11 February 2012 9:38PM
The reason I commented was not because I had no signal. I have lived at this address for several years and never had signal. What has baffled me is the intermitent signal that we are now enjoying. Some of the time we have the whole multiplex at good quality, the rest we have zero on any channel.

I have seen what the predicter says though I have lived at addresses where this has been rubbish in the past.

I will just have to wait and see if when all the multiplexes are over, what we get.
Nick
Sunday 12 February 2012 12:47AM
I have just done a full retune. I'm on the Hannington transmitter. However Muxes A and 2 are pretty much unwatchable as the picture jumped and skips and the 'Signal Level' bar jumps up and down. It used to do this for Mux C but thats now fine. The other muxes are fine.

I have a Hitachi HDB72 Set top box. The funny thing is Mux 2 has always been bad, but Mux A was fine before Christmas. Even changed the flylead and the aerial, even though I'm in a communal flat, is fine. Any solutions? All muxes were fine on the evening of the 8th Feb (the date of the first stage of the switchover), but now is back to the Muxes 2 and A being unwatchable.



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