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tony sayer wrote:
If you're in London, make sure the aerial is mounted horizontally and
pointed at Wrotham where the transmitter is.

Not quite. Wrotham transmits Mixed polarisation but you might find it
simpler to mount your aerial horizontally. If your in parts of South
London, Crystal palace may give you better results.

Absolutely. The BBC national stations from Wrotham are terrible in this
part of S London due to the hills in the way. Driving down Trinity Road
where it crosses Wandsworth Common in a traffic jam where it inches
forward results in near total cancellation of an R4 signal at times due to
extreme multipath. My current car uses diversity reception - it has two
aerials and selects the best one - but is still not perfect. The 'fill in'
transmitter at CP cures this problem totally.

John Birt when DG of the BBC used to live just off this road in the
'Toastrack'. There was no external FM aerial on his house, but a standard
UHF TV one. After a Feedback discussion on general FM reception problems I
wrote to them saying that either he never listened to BBC FM radio, had
cloth ears, or had a line feed. I have an 8 element yagi for FM on my
house and still had problems with Wrotham. A short time later we got a
fill in transmitter. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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