Tuesday retune for Sheffield and Nottingham
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV Today, 27th September 2011, there are final changes at two transmitters:
At Nottingham the SDN multiplex moves to 8k mode, and moves from C67 down to C51; also the ArqA multiplex moves from C63 down to C52 and goes to full power.
At Sheffield, it is the ArqB multiplex that moves from C63 down to C39 today.
Help with Freeview, aerials?
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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David Adamson11:21 AM
Nottingham
why only ch .22working on freeview ?
why no prior notice on screen of need to retune in this area ?
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Dave Jenks11:23 AM
Nottingham
After retuning this morning my HUMAX HDR FOX T2 box has started started receiving what appears to be Sutton Coldfield rather than Nottingham. The stand-alone TV's appear to be okay without retuning.
Can you help please?
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Steve P11:48 AM
Dunno about Nottingham specifically but IIUC the new system is for all txs in a group to use the same name.
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Mike Dimmick5:57 PM
Steve P: Nottingham is part of Waltham's group and would display East Midlands.
Dave Jenks: The work was being done this morning in daytime, expected to finish at 12 noon, rather than in the early hours. It could be that services were off-air when you retuned.
Do check Digital Region Overlap, to see if anything there applies to you.
Digital UK predicts a variable service from the Nottingham relay for you, you're expected to get a much better service from Waltham or Sutton Coldfield. If the aerial points south-west, and is oriented with the elements going side-to-side, the box *should* tune to Sutton Coldfield as that's what the aerial is pointing at. If it points slightly south of east, that's Waltham. If oriented vertically - elements going up-and-down - and pointing roughly due north, it's aimed at the Nottingham relay.
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011
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Dave Jenks12:05 PM
Nottingham
I re-tuned HUMAX this morning (28 Sept) and the problem remains.
I checked signal detection on HUMAX and find that ch's 43 & 46 (650Mhz & 674Mhz) have low signal strength and poor quality, as they are Sutton C.
Ch's 21,24,27,48,51 & 52are are strength 75% and 100%.
E.G BBC1 - channel 1 on the HUMAX EPG listing is bad whereas channel 800, also BBC1 is ok.
All the TV's in the house are rxing Nottingham txr perfectly
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Mike Dimmick1:16 PM
Dave Jenks: Do you have the latest firmware? It was broadcast over-the-air on 4 July 2011; if you don't have it you can get it from
Welcome to HUMAX [UK]
. The version numbers are also listed at that page.
Freeview HD equipment *should* prompt you for the region to select when tuning for the first time. If this box doesn't, check with Humax support. You might be able to get it to prompt again if you select Factory Default from the Installation menu, rather than Automatic Search.
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John Tait2:00 PM
Chesterfield
My Humax signal strength indicator shows 80% with 100% signal quality when pointing at Emley Moor from S40.
What are the acceptable limits for proper reception ?
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Thursday, 29 September 2011
Monday, 3 October 2011
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brendan C1:41 AM
There seems to be a problem with the Nottingham transmitter on the Sky News mux which is ArqA I believe. Yes it is ArqA as my TV says it is on channel 52.
I am getting occasional interference/blocking on this mux. This is rather disappointing as I was having no problems before the change, none whatsoever. In fact it is extremely disappointing given this is on 'full power'.
I am 4 miles from the transmitter, I also went to my parent house who are only mile form the transmittor, ie almost on top of it and they are getting the same problem.
It seems channel 52 is prone to interference.
Anyway there is definitely a problem there which needs sorting.
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brendan C1:54 AM
Dave Jenks, ,my parent have on of those expensive but 'easy to use Humax' boxes.
I was always picking up weak Sutton coalfield signals on it. The solution for me was to lower the aerial and retune to get rid of those weak signals which block the stronger one as they are found first.
You may be able to achieve the same result by fitting an attenuator (something to weaken the signal). It may also be possible to individually tune in a channel but I found the Humax box a bit of a 'pig' to understand.
Their house was a bungalow so it was easy to get at the aerial. Basically you need to find a way of weakening the signal so it missed the bad signals completely. Maybe a bit of badly shielded cabling might do the trick?
You would only need it for the tuning. Or just running it through a long extension cable to, or buy an attenuator on ebay perhaps?
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