Problems with switchover in flats

Kirstyn1984

Hi

I'm having some troubles with my housing association with regards to the switchover. I live in Devon and am due to switchover in a month. I live in a block of flats and get virtually no reception from the aerial point in the wall in my flat. I currently use an internal aerial plugged into my tv, the reception is still not perfect but watchable.
I contacted my housing association to ask them if they could get an aerial specialist in to check what was going on with my reception as after the switchover my plug in internal aerial wont work and I'll have to use the aerial point in the wall. They told me that I should wait until after the switchover and see what happens!! They also told me that if I get an aerial specialist in independently to test my reception then I will have to pay for it!

Can anyone help/advise??

kev_min

If you are getting (in theory) an analogue signal via some form of community aerial system I would shout louder at your Housing Association as I guess guess they, and you, pay a management agency to maintain services including the aerial system. Ask the neighbours if they get a good signal, if its only you suffering it may be a problem with the feed to your flat, if its everyone the system has a problem, either way they should fix it. I can not see how waiting for the switchover will help, unless they are planning to check/upgrade the system at that time.
as a thought, threaten to get the biggest, uglyest mother of an aerial you can find and fit it on the wall of your flat............

sheila_smith

We don't switchover till 2012 and our housing association has already installed a digital aerial, in addition to satellite and cable. We are using cable presently but I am hoping to install a digital receiver soon. We are in a large block of 55 flats, I don't know how far they have got with the smaller blocks. Our internal analogue aerial point was useless too.
I should have thought that having provided an internal aerial point they had obligated themselves to upgrade it for you before switchover.
Were you talking to the right person? We were misinformed about cable when we moved in. It was not until the salesman called and we told him that we had no cable that he told us that we had!

Lakeuk

If you're in the area covered by the bbc story below then you should be able to test whether you can get digital as BBC2 analogue has been switched to digital, if you can't then go onto HA to sort it out you've done your bit by waiting for the switch.

Also check if your neighbours can get digital and if not get them to contact HA - more the merrier






http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7988866.stm