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Help with TV/radio stations?
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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Adina1:18 PM
Thanks Dave(whose surname is spelt EXACTLY the same way as mine, lol) , I will try that right now. You have really enlightened my thinking on all of this. Just one thing, Although I receive bad reception from all the trash channels I love (being transmitted from CP) which apparently I shouldn't be able to receive anyway, would having my aerial facing CP enable me to better receive them as well as all standard channels or should I stick with Woolwich and try to pick up better signal persevering with that?
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Selia2:04 PM
Hello, i have started to watch a programme on pick tv called four weddings today at 1pm 15/05/12. I am utterly disguted by one of the contestants who claimed she did not want a wedding which was too pikey. I wonder if she had used any other ethnic group such as indian or black it would have made it to the final cut, i think not. This word is racist and is against the law to use it in that way. I am a proud english gypsy and find the word intolerable.
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jb385:24 PM
Liam Boyle: Most people located to the North of Peterborough use Waltham as their first choice for reception and with it also being indicated on the reception predictor as such, albeit the penalty there is that the regional news is centred around the Nottingham / Derby areas. However on the technical side the only snag that you might experience is problems caused by the forest of trees located to the W/NW of you, as Waltham's signal comes from roughly that direction.
With regards to receiving a signal from Sandy as well as Belmont and vice-versa, some aerials do not necessarily show that terribly much of a difference in signal strength when turned at 180 degrees from a signal source, and with Sandy being located at 175 degrees from you and Belmont being at 004 degrees then what you have said isn't that surprising.
I would though try a few tests to see what you can pick up from Waltham, although if your aerial is facing Sandy then although Waltham will not be exactly on your aerials dead spot, that is at 90 degrees from the signal source that its pointing at, it is however only about 36 degrees or so away from it as Waltham is located at 301 degrees, although for a test it wouldn't do any harm for you to clear the channels stored on your TV by carrying out a factory reset, then go into the TV's manual tuning screen and punch in mux Ch61 which is BBC from Waltham, if it comes up then try the test again using mux Ch54 which is Waltham's ITV, although its not really a good test because of your aerial facing nearly South.
If by the way, its you that has a large tree smack right in front of your garden then your signal from Waltham would have greatly benefited from the aerial having been mounted on the right hand side of your house, as the signal path would have been clearer in that position.
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Selia6:15 PM
Selia: Meant to ask if anyone knows how or who to complain to.
Many thanks
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Mick7:29 PM
Hi
I am considering a Bush Freeview+ Digital TV Recorder - 500GB to replace my defunct DVD recorder. However, I will miss the option to watch recorded DVDs on another set/player in a different room unless I can connect the other tv to the digital recorder aswell. Is this possible?
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jb388:14 PM
Mick I am not quite sure as to what exactly you want to do as if your DVD recorder is now defunct then its out of the equation, and so is the Bush you are referring to a PVR? that being a self contained Freeview+ digital recorder that cannot record from anything other than its own internal Freeview tuners, nor does it have any DVD player facilities.
If you have a number of DVD's that you want to be able to view then a cheap DVD player is all that you require, as this could be coupled into your TV as well as the Bush, or even connected into any TV so long as it has a scart socket.
Maybe you could clarify on these points.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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Liam Boyle8:32 AM
jb38.
Thanks for that. Pre-digital I was tuned to Anglia but when I converted to digital, the installer lined me up with Waltham. I had it changed back to Sandy to receive Anglia again. It seems I will have to go back to Waltham : (
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Adina: How did you get on?
If your aerial faces Woolwich, then the best you can hope for is that the Public Service channels (those which it broadcasts) are good. You may need to do some work (as I suggested yesterday at 12:58) to get your TV/box tuned to them rather than their counterparts from another transmitter. You could add the Commercial channels from another transmitter (probably Crystal Palace), knowing that they may be poor or unavailable when you wish to watch something on them (but there's nothing more you can do with an aerial facing Woolwich).
"If" you have an aerial installed that will receive from Crystal Palace, then you will be able to pick up all of the Commercial channels (they are the channels that which Woolwich doesn't broadcast). As the Public Service channels that Woolwich does broadcast are the same as those of Crystal Palace, then there is no need for the Woolwich aerial and you would therefore receive all channels from Crystal Palace.
A predictor cannot say for certain either way whether reception is possible or not at a particular location as there are many factors involved. Such a system should is more a guide than gospel.
Whether you can receive from Crystal Palace and what sort of aerial (size) you will need can really only be determined by an installer testing whilst on site.
The reason you have this problem (where you can't get all channels from your native transmitter) is because those that you don't get are operated on a purely commercial profit-driven basis. The operators decided that the cost of broadcasting from 1,000 or so small "filler-in" transmitters like Woolwich wasn't justified by the benefit. This leaves a small proportion of the population unable to view them at all, and some others able to do so if they choose to spend money on changing their aerials.
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Alan Thompson5:58 PM
I can receive digital tv OK.Recently purchased via e-bay Digifusion FVRT 90 digital recorder-works well,however cannot watch one channel & record on another!It was explained to me that I needed a recorder with twin tuners to do this.So purchased 2nd hand a Marks&Spencer TDR100 with twin tuners!!Set it up via instruction booklet,rec`d a channel(radio?72?)for 2seconds and then NO SIGNAL message.Unplugged waited re connected & exactly same thing happened again!!!Frustration!!When I reconnected Digifusion box again no problems perfect reception/record,but of course stuck with just one channel to record!M&S helpline unable to help also Digital Changeover Service the same!!Is there some simple explanation/solution??Can someone kindly put me right??Thanks.
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jb389:32 PM
Alan Thompson: That M&S TDR100 is a TVonics model DTR-FP1600 and which very limited information is known about except that it dates back to 2008, but when you purchased the box did you carry out a complete reset on it to return it to its original default settings?
I would also have requested that you carry out a test by manually tuning in a BBC channel and checking the result, then trying the same test on ITV as I would like to know if you can get these two, but though I am unable to provide the mux channel numbers involved without knowledge of your location, i.e: a post code or one from nearby.
By the way I do have the manual for the box, and when this problem happens can you hear the hard drive running if you place your ear near to the top of the casing?
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