Freeview Box

[RogerS]

dw - Teignmouth is NOT digitally enabled, just as Mike says. So rescanning or whatever won't magically make him see any digital channels.

Andy - your mate will be picking up another transmitter - even if he seems to be pointing his aerial in the same direction as Teignmouth. RF is funny stuff and digital even stranger. Before the days of micro-tx's, there was one valley (can't remember exactly where) that only got TV in the summer. The BBC engineers were perplexed as there was a very dense line of trees on the ridge in direct line of sight to the tx and so, theoretically, they shouldn't have been able to get anything. Then someone chopped the trees down and they lost their signal all year round. Turned out that the rf was bouncing off the underside of the leaves and down into the valley. Probably too much detail!

If you're so inclined, there will almost certainly be some feature on his receiver that will show which one the transmitter is and how good the signal strength and quality is.

 

[andy king]

Then someone chopped the trees down and they lost their signal all year round. Turned out that the rf was bouncing off the underside of the leaves and down into the valley.

Roger,
this sounds familiar!
I live right on the river Avon and my mum would always tell me the tale of her telly signal when I was a kid.
Because we were at sea level, and in a valley, the signal from the transmitter (Mendip iirc) was quite weak so the picture never any great shakes. A new transmitter at Lawrence Weston was opened, and being just over the river, gave great reception - untuil the tide went in or out!
Because the Avon has such a big tidal flow, on a big tide it dragged and distorted the signal so the picture went with it!

Andy