Cheddar Caravan & Motorhome Club Site

[Devonboy]

Can anyone tell me what the tv reception is like at Cheddar CAMC please ? It's been a few years since we visited and used the tv hook up at the bollard. Just wondered if it has improved with digital signal.

 

[otherclive]

Can anyone tell me what the tv reception is like at Cheddar CAMC please ? It's been a few years since we visited and used the tv hook up at the bollard. Just wondered if it has improved with digital signal.

The sites own website says reception poor.

 

[birdman101]

Havnt been a member and used it for years now, but in those days used Sat Dish,

 

[Devonboy]

The sites own website says reception poor.

But then how often do they up date their website .

 

[Dustydog]

The whole Cheddar area is poor
See this

 

[otherclive]

But then how often do they up date their website .

You tell me.

 

[otherclive]

The whole Cheddar area is poor
See this

Pity they cannot bend the Mendip transmitter beams downwards.

 

[Woodentop]

Pity they cannot bend the Mendip transmitter beams downwards.

Shouldn't be a problem - its only 7 miles away so you don't need down-tilt.
I notice that many aerials in the Cheddar area have their aerials point just west of south - which suggests they are using Stockland Hill near Honiton. Farther away but could be a worker. We stay on a CL about 5 miles east of Devizes and although Mendip is 9 miles away behind a small hill it works perfectly., BUT we also get Stockland Hill (35 miles) as well on a useable signal.

The secret is to tune your TV manually and see what you get. Channels are:-
Mendip:- 32, 34, 35, 48, 33, 36, 30
Stockland Hill:- 26, 23, 29, 25, 22, 28
Channels in bold and underlined are HD and need a TV with an HD tuner.
Channel 30 is local TV for Bristol and will likely not be available.

 

[RogerL]

Shouldn't be a problem - its only 7 miles away so you don't need down-tilt.
I notice that many aerials in the Cheddar area have their aerials point just west of south - which suggests they are using Stockland Hill near Honiton. Farther away but could be a worker. We stay on a CL about 5 miles east of Devizes and although Mendip is 9 miles away behind a small hill it works perfectly., BUT we also get Stockland Hill (35 miles) as well on a useable signal.

The secret is to tune your TV manually and see what you get.

Digital tv signals are more dependent on line of sight than the now-defunct analogue tv signals - that's why height of aerial is important when checking signal strength on sites like Wolfbane.

 

[Woodentop]

AND DTTV signals are (mostly) at a higher radiated power than analogue was due to the way Tx power is measured. There is little difference in signal path as DTTV has a high rate of error correction that analogue did not have.