Since mid July I’ve been getting more and more reports of problems receiving the Carhampton relay. My first thought was that the relay had a fault and I reassured my customers that it would be up and running again in a couple of days…but it wasn’t. I had first been contacted by three of my customers in Old Cleeve and one in West Quantoxhead reporting a loss of local channels and it soon became clear that the fault ...

These last few weeks have been very busy with the change of frequency on the Mendip transmitter. The BBC channels which were being transmitted on channel 49 have moved to channel 32, on the whole this hasn’t been a problem but I have come across a couple of instances where group C/D aerials were being used. Probably a good time to explain aerial grouping then.

In the past all frequencies from Mendip were in the C/D range, ...

This tangle of wires was what I found in someones loft, all I had gone there to do was to get one socket working and add a new socket in a downstairs room, all the other sockets in the house were working fine.This was a converted bungalow with a bedroom in the loftspace and just a crawl ...

It looks like Mendip is due for a major retune on March 31st, all frequencies will be moving on that date. I have no more information at the moment regarding time of day etc. At the moment it looks like the local relays (Porlock, Carhampton etc) are not going to be affected.

Please give me a ring if you’d like my help on or after that date

Thank you.

I’ve said all this before, but I think it’s worth saying again, many people around here, and elsewhere no doubt, are being ripped off by companies claiming to be local, turning up from many miles away, installing the cheapest and nastiest aerial components and charging the earth for something that doesn’t work. I do my best to warn against these companies but by the time I’m called out to put it right the financial damage is done.

Continue Reading →

Well I always bang on about these two things…1 – never get someone out of Yellow Pages because they sound cheap and local, and 2 – you get what you pay for, although if you go with option 1 you will definitely pay more than you expect.

I’ve seen the vans in the area, I won’t mention names but the vans advertise aerial installations for £39 + VAT, this raises one important question for me – what ...