The 21st century is receding from us!

[caddyman]

Ho hum.

The recent decline in TV reception at the Athenaeum Club has bottomed out with no appreciable TV reception at all. I have tried everything I can with the coaxial cables inside the building and have found that no combination works any better than another. Indeed, the reception on occasion was better when the cable was physically unplugged.

I am led inexorably to the conclusion that the fault lies on the roof. Any combination of three things is happening or has happened: a) the wind, which I didn't think had been overly strong recently, has dislodged the remaining aerial or at least pushed it out of alignment with the transmitter; b) the coaxial cable has become detached from the aerial, or is in the advanced stages of becoming so; or c) the recent heavy rain is getting into the connection and shorting it out. The latter would explain why reception is so much poorer when the weather is determinedly wet.

Luckily I can get most of the TV I want to watch from the torrents, but it is nice to be able to slump on the sofa and switch the telly and absorb brainless input from time to time. And it doesn't use up CDs either. Individually cheap, but expensive if every TV programme has to be downloaded and put onto a CD.

Grumble.

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

As analog TV will be gone by 2010 it might be the moment to get a new ariel and a freeview box cos the old ariel won't be any use for HD anyway will it?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Ah well, if it was our place I'd agree with you, but we're on a 12 month tenancy agreement, so we shall have to approach the landlord.