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Chris.SE Anne McKillop: Quest and Quest Red do provide subtitles but perhaps not every programme. I ve just checked on each channel. Are you ensuring that you ve tu
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Nicholas Anderson I have often wandered how the system of sustaining all the free to air digital channels by advertising works and is there a single agency which divides all the
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StevensOnln1 Nicholas Anderson: Some of the big broadcasters have their own ad sales division (ITV, Channel 4 Sky) who also sell advertising space for some of the smal
Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Bristol_Rich: Unfortunately you have given us pretty well zero technical information about your installation other than it s a loft aerial. So advice and su
Bexhill (East Sussex, England) Freeview Light transmitter | fr
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Chris.SE Mike Blackmore: You are asked to provide a full postcode that s what the reception predictors need, not full personal details - not a good idea, nevertheles
Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light tr
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Chris.SE jimmy: The usual retune is a BIG mistake! You were no doubt correctly tuned to start with. You cannot tune to a signal that is not there or can
Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) Full Freeview tra
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Chris.SE Brian Baker: Is your TV a very recent Freeview Play TV? If so, you may well find the BBC HD channels on 1,2, 9 etc. (as well as they should be on 101, 102
All free TV channels in the UK
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Chris.SE Norman: Not sure what exactly you want to do, can you please be more explicit about what equipment changes (if any) that you want to make, what you ve got a
Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter
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Steve Donaldson Lynne: The power of the Kings Lynn transmitter was effectively boosted 4.5 times at digital switchover in 2011. In 2018 the power was doubled again. At switc
Kings Lynn (Norfolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter
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Chris.SE Lynne: As you haven t given us a full postcode, we can t look at your predicted reception to see if you may have a choice of better reception from other tra
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: The Filter will NOT block the channel you want. It is designed to block all frequencies above C48. You have failed to understand that a stro
Cow Hill (Highland, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter
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Chris.SE W Goode .: The Freeview information doesn t seem to be up-to-date. I hope you haven t retuned at all, that advise is very bad. IF you were correctly tun
Why do the six Freeview "multiplexes" have twenty different nam
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Chris.SE Bernard Aldymon: Just to add, depending on where you are within Hemel Hempstead, those two channels - multiplexes ArqA/COM5 ArqB/COM6 may be the weake
Kintraw (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter
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Chris.SE Maureen Mair: Although this isn t the Torosay transmitter page, this relay and a number of others and Torosay have all been off air due to a fault, but the
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: The filter must go before any amplification otherwise it defeats the object. You need to remember that your predicted reception of the COMs i
Channel 5 HD
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Chris.SE Linda : Channel 5+1 is carried on the SDN/COM4 multiplex, not the same one as Ch.5, Ch.4, ITV etc. Which channels did you check? If you still have the prob
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+
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Steve Donaldson Adrian Holroyd: There are engineering works at Beacon Hill, which is where Dartmouth gets its signal from:
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+
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Chris.SE Adrian Holroyd: Can t find any reported faults for the Dartmouth transmitter, However the transmitter is a Relay of Beacon Hill which is listed for Planned
Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans
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Chris.SE paul : The box ticking wasn t the issue, at certain times of day, it takes a while for posts to appear!! I agree it would be more helpful is they publish
Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans
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Chris.SE Ian Leslie Jackson: His TV is probably not as recent as yours, and your problems may be specific to your model which you haven t stated (only that it s 6 mo
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+
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Chris.SE Annemarie woods: I m afraid that Arqiva (who are responsible for the majority of transmitters and the engineering work) never provide details of what the wo
Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE StevensOnln1: Thanks :) I wonder what the weather forecast for then Is?
My ITV/C4 Freeview channels have disappeared - what can I do?
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Chris.SE Clive Borg: Hello, I assume from your post the you are referring to the BBC SD channels on LCNs 1,2, 9 23. Did you also check BBC News and Parliament
5USA
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Chris.SE Sandra Johnson: Has your sound returned? This could have been an issue only affecting 5USA at your transmitter (it s ok for me). Assume you get your signals
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StevensOnln1 Don Chester: There are 10s of thousands of mobile phone masts, TV and radio transmitters, as well as various other structures hosting communications equipment a
Knockmore (Moray, Scotland) DAB transmitter
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Chris.SE Mark: No problem. Glad you ve got them back. FYI QAM64 is the transmission mode which is used by all the main SD multiplexes, it doesn t identify the multip
Knockmore (Moray, Scotland) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Ian Brown : There appears to have been a fault with the ArqA/COM5 and ArqB/COM6 multiplexes as I ve seen another viewer report but unfortunately finding fau
Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Bruce: Hello again Bruce. Prior to the 8th January, there had been some work going on at Mendip, despite it not being on the list, as a couple o
Lairg (Highland, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter
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Chris.SE Clive: Hello Clive. The BBC aren t reporting any problems with the transmitter (nor in the last 5 days) so it s presumably on air - unless you ve been exper
Pontop Pike (County Durham, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Clark: Well as you haven t given a full postcode we don t know where you are so can t check your predicted reception. There are no faults currently listed f
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: Absolutely nothing. Maybe I should have made the BUT in my last post in capitals and the post clearer. IF note the IF, there are no other is
Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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Chris.SE Lance Spencer : As per the post just before yours, the transmitter is subject to Planned Engineering, the multiplex may be on reduced power or the Reserve A
Penicuik (Midlothian, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter
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Chris.SE Cammy: Hi Cammy. Classic FM changed it s transmission mode at the beginning of January from plain DAB to DAB+. If your receiver isn t DAB+ you may not get t
Kilkeel (Northern Ireland) Freeview Light transmitter
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Steve Donaldson D Graham: It might be worth giving BBC Reception a ring to see if they have any further information and a time when it is expected to be restored: Tel: 03700 10
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: Any mobile interference may not be suppressed adequately. Is this low power amp external on the mast? If so I suggest you ask Res
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: Yes, they will come and fit external ones for free (sometimes a new aerial), that is their job, they are paid by the mobile operators, that was
Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Bruce: Did you not see the reply? Despite the Planned Engineering (whatever they re doing) the answers to the questions will be helpful. Transmissions see
Will car radios have to be replaced? | Help! TV channels, radio
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Nicholas Anderson Why does the media always assume that everyone has a smart TV connected to the internet when this is needed to receive many freeview national and international
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StevensOnln1 Nicholas Anderson: Most of the streaming channels would never be able to afford to broadcast on Freeview if they weren t streamed, and given how far down the EP
Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit
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StevensOnln1 A Wilton.: Firstly, nobody on this website has anything to do with any broadcaster or transmitter company. Secondly, nobody is switching off the HD signal, cert
Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit
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Chris.SE A Wilton.: You may not be in a location that has the best of reception (of the HD mux). As StevensOnln1 has said, in normal circumstances (when the transm
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: The fact that you might be the only one in the area is irrelevant, others may have cable, satellite or an aerial that might be screened
Limavady (Northern Ireland) DAB transmitter
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Chris.SE Bob: It may depend on exactly where you are in Dungiven. A full postcode would help. The area seems generally flat terrain and doing a random check you ough
Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Oliver: I m afraid Arqiva never give details of the work taking place or how long it s going to take especially as a lot of it may be weather dependant. Wha
Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit
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Chris.SE PETER MARTIN: It s not clear from the way you commented, whether it s just the HD mux that s 10-20% or all of them? You say you ve checked the strength at
Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Steve Donaldson Paul Fearn : When you made your last posting on here in October, I did some research and put together two long postings which are here:
Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Paul Fearn : You could also try contacting Arqiva and asking them what work is taking so long and when do they think it may be complete. I m sure we d all b
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE nick horrex: As I mentioned, they can use slightly different Lithium technologies. AA 1.5v Lithium rechargeables exist but are not particularly cheap, eg
Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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nick horrex Chris SE, Thank you for so much info to study. I still don t know, though, for example, what makes one lithium 1.5v battery rechargeable and another 1.5v lith
Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter
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Chris.SE Chris: Well that s extremely surprising as you are only 2km from the transmitter. Have you checked that you are correctly tuned to Bluebell Hill s UHF chann