RE: More news on the Sky service to rival Freeview

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mal

I use Sandy Heath, and i'm sure i get all the ITV's, CH4 & 5.

I will look tonight. - I have line of site of Sandy transmitter - about
15miles away, and get quite a poor signal, but all my Freeview does work -
did have a problem with Cbeebies though...



Dean.






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-----Original Message-----
From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 July 2004 16:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] More news on the Sky service to rival Freeview


Damn this Yahoo!  How many more emails will cross each other?!

Anyway, I do know what you mean about the post code thing.  I used to
live in Redhill, and at that time wanted to get OnDigital.  Dixons
refused to sell one to me because of a) my postcode, and b) I was on a
shared aerial in an apartment building.  In the end I went to a branch
near my parent's house and just lied on the form.  The box worked fine
and picked up all the channels.

Now I have my own house, b) can't be a problem, but I'm 25 miles from
Sandy Heath, and despite being high up, analog reception is very poor
(extremely grainy).  Anyway, it's all moot if Sandy Heath isn't
transmitting all the channels anyway!

Mal


Maccy wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Mal Lansell wrote:
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>>If the list is indeed larger and they are filtering it based on
>>postcode, why would they think I might not get ITV if I should be
able
>>to recieve BBC1?  Is each channel transmitted at a different power
level?
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>Yes, on some transmitters, to avoid interference. Although all
multiplexes
>transmit at 20kW from Sandy Heath according to www.dtg.org.uk so I'd
>assume you'd get all or nothing :) All with the correct aerial type
>(you'll need one that incorporates Group W).
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>Why not borrow a freeview box from a friend to see what you get? Or
even
>purchase one from Asda or Argos etc. with a no quibbles guarantee
(check
>small print) so you can get your money back if you can't seem to
receive
>the full array of channels.
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>Again, don't trust the online postcode checkers. I put my parents'
>postcode in and it claimed only some of the available channels would be
>receivable. I know for a fact they get each and every one of the
freeview
>offerings, because I set it up for them....
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>Good luck,
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>Maccy
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