On 14/06/2010 10:44, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:03:12 +0100, John wrote:

she lives in a non-cabled area and is on a relay station and has poor
reception and not much hope of Freeview for a while.

Poor analogue reception doesn't bode well for Freeview. But bung her
post code into the checker on http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/ to find out
when DSO should be happening for her.

Rest of excellent advice snipped.

We were, I think, the second area to go fully digital (Winter Hill) and
I was thinking that the digital reception was going to be poor even
after I paid out £150-00 for a new aerial. Analogue was ghosting and
quite un-watch-able at times and digital would pixilate very badly. I
later found out it was looking through a tall and narrow tree to find a
signal. When it rained, it was at its worst.

Now the analogue has been switched off, we have no problems, as I think
they have upped the power of the digital transmissions.


Dave