Damn garbled BBC1 on freeview

[Party boy]

Trying to watch the F1 and keep getting horrible clicking, garbled pictures etc - often the case with the BBC channels, the others are usually much better - any suggestions?

It seems a bit better later in the day and I live ina town cenre for what it's worth...

[EvilBoris]

Could be something silly like atmospheric conditions or traffic causing interferance with a weak signal. Try getting a signal booster perhaps

[koopatroopa90]

Switch to analogue. Otherwise this website is pretty useful, you can kind of work out whether it's up to the things EvilBoris mentioned or if it's just because the signal for those channels is turned down low.

[Daragon]

I thought analogue was dead now?

Given the fact that even a slight drizzle is enough to throw off our digital signal, you'd have thought it would be digital to have a mass switch off. Digital is ****ing useless in the UK

[plopboy]

Analogue is still available is some areas, though it is being switched off area by area.
What sort of ariel do you have? You do need a digital ariel (obviously) but you also need to know whether you are in a weak or strong signal area as that will also effect which ariel you need to get.

Have you done a rescan of all your services (Channels) recently? This also may help especially if you area has jut turned off analogue.

[charlesr]

I got a digital aerial put up for ?100ish - if you don't have one, it will make a huge difference.

[k0pp0]

well.. the tiny difference in weather recently (ie a bit of hot weather) has already started knocking out some of the digital channels we get.. most annoying - absolutely fine through winter.

[Flabio]

Definitely worth a rescan. The BBC have fiddled with their Mux recently, if you go to News 24 you might get a caption popping up recommending a rescan.

With a signal amp, you have to first work out whether it's signal strength thats the issue, or noise. Most decent boxes will have a way to show you both strength and noise. A signal booster can't help you if the problem is noisy source. That's more likely to need a change of aerial.

I actually live in a fairly low strength area, but the noise factor is low so I still get everything OK. The flat I'm in uses a communal aerial with a signal booster already on it (which I found out when the fuse went in the 'communal' fusebox and I suddenly lost every channel except for BBC1 and 2...) When I lived in Cov it was a high noise area, and all adding a signal booster does there is make the noise stronger.