Had full power transmissions reception in North-West London from Crystal Palace transmitter since the end of the digital switchover period in April this year.However, two weeks before Christmas, started to lose channels altogether and suffer reduced power on others. Over last weekend, all channels seemed to be restored to full power, then suddenlly, on Christmas Eve all the ITV channels disappeared.

Pretty certain, tbis is on-going engineering work. But, as usual, all the official web sites are silent as to whether work is going on.

Is anybody out there, "In-the-know", about this outage.

IMHO, its pretty poor show, being the second major disruption to transmissions in a year. I know customers of "Poverty TV" are not supposed to expect good service as they don't pay service charges to a private service company, but, trouble is, I remember the days when paying a licence fee was sufficient to guarentee good reception of basic TV over long periods.

I think its worthy of a "Dear ******s" letter.

Nick

Edited 25 December, 201213 yr by Clunkclick

I'm in Swansea and only noticed as I was getting ready for Doctor Who that the Freeview HD channels had disappeared. Going to re-tune later to see what happens

I did a "Factory re-tune" and all that suceeded in doing was degrading all the BBC channels to heaviy pixellation.

Now, they're not telling me that they consulted a fiocus group when deciding what is the best time to do the work - they can try to.

IIC - Idiots-in-charge.

Nick

Edited 25 December, 201213 yr by Clunkclick

Freeview lite is all we get.

So no Dave.

They still find room in the spectrum for Gay Rabbit.

Have you tried a signal booster? Is the aerial digital compatible?

Have you considered that life would be simpler without tv and ADSL?

Have you considered that life would be simpler without tv and ADSL?

There'd be nothing for Nick to complain about.

Retuned and they've moved up to the 100's. Makes them easier to find

Have you tried a signal booster? Is the aerial digital compatible?

if you've got a poor signal then using an amplifier will make no difference, all it will do is amplify the rubbish

The situation seemed to correct itself the day after boxing day, although there was a subsequent period a week later when some of the ITV channels went AWOL one evening, returning the following day.

The Freeview web-site for CP maintained that all was fine and dandy over the whole Christmas period ? One begins to wonder whether loss-of-signal is due to some local third party action e.g. engineering work for 4-G on the mobile repeaters, naughty local taxi firm turning up the juice for Xmas (I think the RCA may have had words with them before) or re-tuning of microwave landing system at Northolt.

Can't use a signal amplifier in my location now for FVDTT, as they cranked-up the signal output after DTT switchover in April (Again without announcing the fact and explaining the consequences) and, strangely, if you put an amp in-line which non-selectively boosts (As mine was-I haven't seen an "intelligent" DTT booster, is there such a thing ?) when you've got full signal strength, the receiver rejects the signal as being over-powered and you get nothing (According to web posts I'm not alone in experiencing this !). So, in the situation I experienced over Xmas, where you have a mixture of full-strength signals and under-powered signals coming from the same transmitter, all an amp does is wipe out the full-power stations and boost the under-powered.

VDSL 2 + and DTT (Although DAB has been squelchy over the last week) are now fine and Blackberry have introduced the equivalent of skype over BBM wi-fi connections, so I'm as happy as a pig in a lather - for the moment.

Apologies for the lack of gritty morsels for ClunkClick Moanwatch.

Nick

Edited 3 January, 201313 yr by Clunkclick

To be honest, I doubt you would have missed much over this Christmas.

You didn't. Apart from Doctor Who TV this Christmas was dire

Maybe your TV is knackered. Have you checked with your neighbours who also watch council tv?