Would any knowledgeable person be able to shed light on where the 5G Clearance will leave us when finished in a couple of years’ time?
Like many here, the March changes left all my Com7 & Com8 (Sutton Coldfield) channels weaker and unreliable initially. Upon asking the people at https://www.freeview.co.uk/ they eventually agreed to send an engineer, saying that they’d probably fit a new aerial at their cost to recover channels that their power downgrade had taken away.
Six long weeks later, they denied the engineer appointment they’d made had existed (I’d ‘imagined it’, they said…) but they did offer others. Between their time of day inflexibility and my work to home commuting distance, it was clear I’d need a day off work to (maybe) get a free aerial, a borderline trade really. Annoyingly, signal strength of these two MUXs had recovered somewhat in that long wait meaning an engineer might not even agree the problem remained. I haven’t tried rebooking yet due to this uncertainty etc.
So I’m back with just about acceptable Com7 & Com8 for now, and think I read somewhere that in a couple of years’ time they may be going to axe Standard Definition channels as HD becomes the more used variant. If so, that future clearance and rearrangement might make the power reduction of Com7 & Com8 irrelevant and my aerial worries unimportant if space on stronger MUXs has been freed up.
But I’m hoping someone here may know more than me on the subject?
