Your suggestions (and my corrections) for 2014 please
Always happy to hear your suggestions. Photograph: Shutterstock
Firstly, here is a list of some of the "backend" changes I have made to UK Free TV.
Special transmitter details
Caldbeck (Cumbria, England) transmitter now shows the ITV Border England and ITV Border Scotland services.
Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) transmitter: I have merged together two entries for Ridge Hill (a legacy of the analogue ITV-1 service, back in 2006 - ITV West extended to North Gloucestershire) and the ITV West service is now shown on the same page as all the rest.
Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter : Thanks to serling work from Sean we now have notification from Arqiva about the correct transmission details for com7 and com8 from that mast.
Transmitter Meta Tags
If you search on Google and get information up about transmitters from UK Free TV, the "meta" information now shows the correct number of multiplexes and all of their channels and powers.
Interfaces with Twitter and Facebook
I have obtained better icons for the sites listed in the Zeitgeist section. So, if you look at a "Read This" page, you see a better look, for example Read this: London Live reveals its bright lights for the big city - Media - theguardian.com now looks like
When such a page is posted on Facebook, it now keeps the correct large icon:
And pages posted on Twitter now get the full format for the extended tweet:
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— Brian Butterworth (@Briantist) January 15, 2014Over to you
One in 20 people from the UK visited UK free TV last year. I would love to be able to extend the site to make it useful to more people.
I would love you to tell me how the site could be made even better so we can help even more people enjoy Freeview, Freesat, Sky (No Card) and online TV viewing.
Help with Freeview, aerials?
Monday, 20 January 2014
Tony Hill: Thanks. Let me know if you have any additional thoughts.
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Jpurkis10:53 PM
Brian, can you do an article of dream boxes.
In particular what you can and cannot do with them.
Can you provide a list of possible channels available?
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Jpurkis11:02 PM
Can I change my name and Email address easily without losing my previous posts?
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Just a tiny presentational suggestion - it would be very helpful if the UHF CHANNEL NUMBERS could be more prominently displayed beside the PSBs and COMs, they are what we need for tuning.
I wouldn't need to ask if my filing system (brain) was better organised. I've probably got the list in 10 different places and can't find any of them!
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Patricia: I'm really not sure what you mean. I'm not sure how much more "prominently" you want them?
Sorry if I'm missing what you mean.
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Tony Hill1:27 PM
Dorchester
Briantist: Just one other thing, perhaps. The other day I was looking for a list of all the questions/email topics (not just the top questions) and I found an A-Z (I think it was A-Z) listing of them all but I don't know how I got there.
Perhaps a direct menu heading as a link would be useful - to me anyway!
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Tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 26 January 2014
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Charles Stuart7:28 PM
Bristol
In the days of analogue TV, it was very easy for a competent DIYer to install a TV aerial. With digital, it is much harder. Could I suggest a tool where one inputs a postcode and the program generates a list of transmitters likely to serve the address and the direction in degrees that one should point an aerial? As an example, Mendip is almost due south of me, so my postcode of BS15 1EF would generate a direction close to 180 degrees, maybe 177 or 183 degrees. I realize that sometimes an obstruction or some other thing can cause an effect that means that reception is slightly better if the aerial is slightly out of alignment but I think my idea would generally work.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Charles Stuart: Digital UK already has such a tool. If you are to be entirely accurate then you will need to take into account how far Magnetic North is from either True North or Grid North (depending on which Digital UK uses).
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Charles Stuart: That said, I don't think it's that critical and there are probably factors that will be more likely to cause poor reception such as objects between the transmitting and receiving antennas.
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Dave Lindsay: I thought that the difference between grid north and magetic north was about one degrees at the moment?
Magnetic Declination
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