Constantly retuning TV

kwikbreaks

We've recently had a period of high pressure which often gives rise to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_ducting

If you are not in a high signal strength area (or sometimes even if you are) transmissions from distant transmitters on the same frequency as your local one can be received strongly enough to cause problems (breakup on digital and multiple pictures on analogue).

Where I used to live getting Freeview required a big aerial as there was no official reception. Sometimes the weather caused severe problems and tuning on analogue showed good pictures from a transmitter which I worked out to be 250 miles away.

Before investing lots of effort into this leave it a week and see if the problem is still there. Typically when there is a problem caused this way it will only be on some channels with the others being OK

weegie.geek

penrhyn wrote: »

True but the OP was describing a progressive degradation of their picture.

And it could be progressive.

A few breakups a minute, only a couple of blocks at a time, progressively getting worse until it's constant glitches, making it completely unwatchable.

penrhyn

I guess we will have to wait for the OP to come back maybe they need new Digital Ariel.



Make sure its plugged into the Ariel socket.

coinchaser

Thanks for all the advice. The Freeview is part of the TV so it's not a separate box. I will leave it a week incase it's a weather thing, then maybe investigate the aerial - I have seen lots of birds near it so they might have something to do with it??

There's no other equipment near it - unless it's the other side of the wall in the neighbour's house? (could that happen?) So fingers crossed...

dragon934

coinchaser wrote: »

There's no other equipment near it - unless it's the other side of the wall in the neighbour's house? (could that happen?) So fingers crossed...

No, well its possible but I highly doubt it. It was just a suggestion if you'd ruled out the aerial already. But I wouldn't start blaming next door just yet. Unless he's some mad scientist who's transmitting to the Space station

Sublime_2

dragon934 wrote: »

Unless he's some mad scientist who's transmitting to the Space station

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