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Freeview is on a very sad decline.
I'm trying to get this site back into shape.
Would a "contact your MP" function be useful - based on your Freeview transmitter?
Ofcom Report: Future of TV distribution.
Help with Freeview, aerials?
Friday, 24 January 2025
Brian Butterworth
2:52 AM
2:52 AM
Things to fix: AM+FM mast list and Save Money.
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Brian Butterworth
12:02 PM
12:02 PM
Apologies for the database being closed this morning.
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Saturday, 25 January 2025
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Chris.SE1:39 AM
Brian Butterworth:
Hello Brian, nice to see you posting. There have been occasions in the recent past when it's not been possible to access the site, I don't know if that's when updates have been taking place or there've been too many connections (I'm assuming spam postings).
As far as "additions" go, I think most of us would prefer you try and fix some of the bugs, broken things and things out of date. Please see some of the things I've advised in the past.
Currently, some are -
On Radio, the "AM+FM stations" link goes to the "All radio stations on DAB" page and visa-versa the "DAB stations" link goes to the "All radio stations on FM and AM" page.
On Freeview -
some links in posts to Freeview (Light) transmitters, eg. today, Todmorden go to the "Full service Freeview transmitters" page.
On Main transmitter pages, the channel lists on the COM muxes aren't always complete/correct it would be helpful if they were also in LCN order.
Sometimes the Planned Engineering doesn't get to the relevant transmitter page.
Sometimes in the weekly emails, some links sometimes have spurious characters so don't work.
The Live Faults Map page All transmitters with faults and engineering | free and easy for 21 years doesn't appear to update.
There are a few other but I don't have time to find them atm, eg. a couple of transmitter pages UHF channels haven't updated correctly. I'll post here as I come across any others if that's ok.
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Chris.SE3:14 PM
Brian Butterworth:
Another Freeview Light transmitter link, Millburn Muir is going to the "Full service Freeview transmitters" page.
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Sunday, 26 January 2025
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Chris.SE2:00 AM
Brian Butterworth:
We all have problems with the "Captcha" due to the images being so poor, can't they provide better images. Jimmy had a major problem Hi. For me to help you, just think of your problem and answer each question in turn. First, are you seeing the words "No Signal" or "Technical fault" on the TV screen? | Knowledge base | free and easy for 21 years
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Monday, 27 January 2025
Brian Butterworth
11:46 AM
11:46 AM
Chris.SE: The Captcha is provided by Google, so there's not much I can do about it.
I did try to remove the need for it, but the Askimet service is not able to correctly identify the spam posted.
Perhaps I can find a different Captcha?
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Brian Butterworth
11:51 AM
11:51 AM
Chris.SE: The site was not working due to problems I wasn't able to resolve.
I have created a new server and upgraded the code to work with PHP8.4 and - touch wood - so this server is 100% new, but I've not been able to get the email system (using AWS SES) to work yet.
I will endeavour to fix the problems you describe.
The email message faults I've never quite got to the bottom of where they are being mangled.
There is a single piece of code that does the transmitter name mapping, so I would expect them all to be wrong.
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Chris.SE6:58 PM
Brian Butterworth:
Appreciating your efforts, keep it up :)
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Chris.SE7:28 PM
Brian Butterworth:
Another bug that occurs from time to time, is when posting on a transmitter page (eg. just now with Nottingham) it did not return to the last page where the post would be. It seems random as to when this happens, I'll see if I can spot a pattern, but nothing obvious to date.
A very long time ago, over a year, it always used to return to the bottom of the page after the post, but these days just ends up at the top of the page.
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