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New instalment in TV reception row



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Published Date:
16 January 2008
Some residents are still having problems with their TV reception, despite attempts by former Kodak tower developers Dandara to fix the problem.

The firm arranged for an extra mast to be fitted to the tower after viewers claimed their sets were not working because of construction work.

Before Christmas, 20 families - many living in Bassil Road and St Albans Road - contacted our sister pape
r the HeraldExpress claiming work to build apartments was interfering with a transmitter on the tower.

National Grid Wireless, which provides the transmitter, agreed to fit an extra temporary output mast.

Two other temporary masts had already been installed so that the main transmitter - fitted to boost reception when the tower was built in the 1970s - could be switched off while building work continues.

However, some residents are still suffering with fuzzy screens. Margaret Beatie, of Beechfield Road, said: "It has got slightly better but it is still not like it was before they started the work."

Dorrie Doe, of St Albans Road, Hemel Hempstead, still gets lines and numbers running across her screen during programmes.

And Rosemary Evans, also of St Albans Road, cannot get any reception on televisions in upstairs bedrooms.

Terry Jackson, of Iveagh Court, Hemel Hempstead says his digital television keeps cutting out and he gets a message saying 'bad signal' or 'no signal'.

Meanwhile Jeff Payne, of Anchor Lane in Boxmoor, decided to have a new aerial installed that picks up a transmitter in Bedmond, costing him £110.

Stephen Arnold, a spokesman for National Grid Wireless, said: "What we understand is that all the people that were previously supposed to be covered by that particular site now have coverage."

Anyone still having problems should contact BBC Reception Advice on 08700 100 123.



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  • Last Updated: 16 January 2008 12:01 PM
  • Source: Hemel Gazette
  • Location: Hemel Hempstead
 
 
  

 
 


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