The regional coverage site shows Midlands/Central is not ready till 2011 (or therabouts). I checked all the post codes surrounding me and every one including those around the corner of my road of just 17 small town houses has coverage as does most of the town. And, BBC keep putting those annoying adds to get switched over, and what makes it more annoying is that I have no coverage on my road. I tried a box and got no signal.
Whats the deal here? Why are the majority of the roads, particularly the ones surronding mine, have coverage and then theres the odd road here and there like mine with no coverage.
This has just baffled me? Can some1 Explain?
2007-02-08 12:08:42 · 19 answers · asked by vik 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I just realised the pun in my Q- I don't get it- literally I don't!!
2007-02-08 12:09:50 · update #1
Which site did you check?
Sounds more like that is the date for the analogue swich off. The midlands is covered by freeview.
Check this site with your postcode.
http://www.freeview.co.uk/availability
2007-02-08 12:12:46 · answer #1 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are spot on. The Internet sites ( I live is East Sussex ) stated that I could receive BBC3, BBC4, BBC Childrens and BBC News so I bought a digital TV to enjoy these. And what could I receive? Absolutely nothing! The information sites are at best, only approximate. But go 20 miles up north and they receive the lot. Anyway, I bought a Freesat set up in the end from Sky and that works perfectly. It seems that digital coverage on the currently weak signals literally fade out around street corners ....... let the buyer beware!
2007-02-08 20:26:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure why your road and other isolated roads can't pick up the signal. If you have a box try a signal booster type aerial or powered box. It may just be that the orientation of your aerial is wrong. Digital uhf signals do go off like that and they are very vulnerable to interferance from atmospherics including power cables, weather and microwave signals( if you live in Cheltenham say good by to your TV!).
Have you got a roof top aerial?
2007-02-08 20:20:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah I live in a similar area (High Peak) and our problem is the same. Having made some enquiries we (annoyed residents) are told that they can't turn on the digital signal for Freeview until they turn off the analogue. One suspects the real reason is financial not technical though and is to do with population density. So we too get the annoying adverts and pay for a service through our licence fee that can't receive either.
Why the hell should we fork out for Sky and Cable on top - its another governmental money grabbing rip off to sell off the analogue channels and then in the end to get us to subscribe to encodable digital services at a premium price. You wait - more and more of what was previously free will migrate to subscriber only channels.
2007-02-08 20:24:43 · answer #4 · answered by stgoodric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its all to do with the range of the transmitters you will find that roads around may recieve a signal but it will be weak as they are on the outside area of reception for them to get a geed signal they will probably need a new aerial and or a booster to receive an adequate reception, also your road may be in a dip and the house surounding you are higher up and therefore stopping the weak signal from reaching you, this however should be rectified when new or stronger transmitters are erected in your area.
2007-02-08 20:32:42 · answer #5 · answered by unarmedsnail2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on signal strength, houses in the way interfere with the wave band.
try a signal booster.
we had this problem, when we used a variable booster you can turn the strength up or down up got us the bbc channels & down got us the itv channels.
but it was far to much of a hassel as we had to keep resetting the box & reinstalling the channels!
in the end we got sky?
2007-02-08 20:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by muffin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the same thing...I was told by an installation airel man that the reception at my house is very low..that they are due to update the station where my airel points towards within the next few months.
2007-02-08 20:14:13 · answer #7 · answered by Susie2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my postcode I dont get it either and in midlands however after intalling good areal and rebooting it a lot I get them all with no problem. Keep rebooting and it will come up and also two scart leads help.
2007-02-09 05:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by momof3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is signal in most places, i have to use a booster ariel in my area as the signal is so bad
2007-02-08 20:13:49 · answer #9 · answered by im2jaded04 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you in a ditch or in a hilly area?
you might just need a new ariel, everybody on my street can't get it unless they have a special freeview ariel installed for about £60
2007-02-08 20:13:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋