TomTom TMC - Areas of Service / No Service

vicky

Now with V6.522 Software we seem to be getting some idea of where TMC is really working I thought it would be useful for users to post some experiences of where they were getting a signal and where there was none, as a way of trying to build up a picture of the Major Road network and where the unit was likely to work

My experiences so far are

Sheffield Around the city and on M1 from Jnc 36 to Jnc 30 Service

M1 NO SERVICE from Jnc30 to Jnc 16

M1 Service from Jnc 16 to Jnc 6a M25
M25 Service from M1 clockwise to Jnc 25 and down to Enfield on the A10

Big black hole around the East Midlands, and the M1 in this area, Jnc 30 to Jnc 16 no service at all, making the unit fairly pointless for North-South treks.

which is echoed by the Classic FM Transmitter map, with very poor coverage of the central UK, the SinC Transmitter in Birmingham doing a good job covering the area for standard audio but not it seems for Data.

(As a side point, 2 vehicles we use that have built in TMC get reliable TMC over the classic network in this area), pointing to the TomTom Unit either being deaf compared to the built in units or the flying lead antenna as the problem, these have been discussed in alternate threads

Interested to hear from others as to areas of coverage / no coverage.

philce · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2005 Posts: 29

Great! I was just about to get the 510 with TMC that PCWorld have today to replace my old Medion. You just saved me £240!

The only reason I wanted it was for the TMC, I thought it used the local independant stations not classic FM (Which is crap here in Leicester and all around as you describe!). I have tried the Sony Nuvi and it was as useless as you describe, running us into a 20 mile queue on the M1 and no TMC signal till the other side!

I also trialled a Medion Gopal with TMC that used the local transmitters that was great, but the maps for europe were unable to navigate cross border and no general map!

I cant win!

Cheers

Darren · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:23 am Post subject:

On a recent journey from Surrey to North Wales I had TMC from Junction 1 M54 through to Wrexham then lost signal. Regained near Colwyn Bay on A55 through to Llandudno.

I get nothing around my home in North East Hampshire, similarly zilch along M3 to Basingstoke and as far alosn as A303 Stonehenge.
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philce · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2005 Posts: 29

Hi,

Looking around the forums here it seems that some users are reporting that signals are being recieved from the traffic master transmitters also. Garmin have changed over to them due to the problems with Classic FM.

Does anyone know if this is the case?

Thx

Phil

Darren · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

GizmoB73

vicky · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

Can you supply details of the mod, as i would be interested in trying it.

GizmoB73 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject:

If you email it to me I'll upload and provide a link in your post the the file.
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GizmoB73 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

SpeedCam · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

Gizmo, thanks for the write up most interesting and fairly straight forward, it does appear that TomTom have included the connectors on the PCB. If so why didn't they just do the job properly?

Just to clarify, in your pictures does the red wire go to the centre core of a standard coax car ariel?

coastersteve · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject:

vicky · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject:

GizmoB73

Many Thanks for the very well documented instructions.

Will give it a go on Saturday,

Cheers

Vicky

GizmoB73 · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

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