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| Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | MikeP Tracy: Please provide a full post code, then we can look up what services you should be getting. A partial post code is of no use as the Freeview system req | ||||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | J | js Chris.SE: Yes, I noticed. It s a pity the links on ukfree.tv with embedded postcodes no longer work. I spent some time yesterday trying to track down who is | |||
| Movies4Men | C | Chris.SE Susan Allen : Movies4men has been renamed by Sony to Sony Movies Action and is still on LCN40 on the SDN/COM4 multiplex except in Wales where it s not avail | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | R | richard wf2 6rt roof mount Since 23 Oct we have been unable to retune to BBC4 HD on either Panasonic TV or recorder9both recent and worked fine until recent change. | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | N | nobody richard: The Coverage prediction for your postcode is good but assumes a group T aerial. Your current aerial is likely a group B, which will not now provide suf | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE richard: The good news is you aren t stuck with it. According to the Freeview detailed coverage checker, you should have no problem receiving all the multipl | |||
| Full technical details of Freeview | C | Chris.SE Bert Leslie: The Dover transmitter (nor any other not transmitting COMs 7 8) will never be upgraded to transmit them. They are temporary multiplexes cur | |||
| Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light tr | J | Jimmy Can anyone advise me. Channel 4+1 has changed to ch45 and according to this page....Which Freeview channels does the Millburn Muir transmitter broadcast? I shou | |||
| Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light tr | C | Chris.SE Jimmy: I m not sure if you misread the list above but Channel4+1 is on 15 and is on the D3 4 multiplex which you should be/are getting. I haven t checked | |||
| Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE John H: Yes it has been amalgamated into the Freeview site and a very sloppy even bad job has been made of it, and some of the issues that I would have expe | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | C | Chris.SE Gordon: Thank you for your information and I m glad that you are getting good reception with your set-up. If this is the version with the amplifier that aut | |||
| Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter | C | Chris.SE John: Well since you were receiving the COMs 7 8 multiplexes previously then I would be telling the Aerial installer to come and sort it out. Is the aer | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | G | Gordon Chris / Roy The Televes DAT 45 HD is not to be confused with the Televes DAT 75 which is a beast of an aerial. The purpose of recommending the wideband T | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | J | Justin Eastham Hi, I m getting frequent drop-outs in reception, with the PSB-3 MUX at Wenvoe. 5g is now operating from the Wenvoe transmitter; and PSB-3 is on UHF-47 (682MH | |||
| Freesports | D | David Green Hi,I get free sports,however I have tried recording one or two channels and it has recorded something completely different. The latest example being tried to r | |||
| Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | E | Eric Hewitt when I retune my TV I get all of the Wales programmes ie. S4C BBC Wales ITV Wales etc. but when I switch off then back on again the next day all of the a | |||
| Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | MikeP Eric Hewitt: Your TV is not remembering the new channel settings. To cure that, unplug the aerail and perform an automatic tune. When that has completed, plu | ||||
| Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter | C | Chris.SE John: In answer to your question, in theory yes, in practise no - because it would need to be done with a diplexer which would allow one channel group from | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | C | Chris.SE Justin Eastham: Firstly, a 5G filter for the 700MHz band will block your reception of COMs 7 8. Secondly, AFAIK there in no 700MHz 5G transmissions in Ca | |||
| Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE John Wren: A lot of the Sony Channels are only transmitted on Local multiplexes see | |||
| Freesports | C | Chris.SE David Green: Their official website is https://www.freesports.tv/ and the schedule is on and I note it says | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | A | AJ Aerial in loft at TS8 0RW and was receiving a very good signal for programmes from channels C55 C56 until I had to retune this morning (13/11/2019) due t | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | C | Chris.SE Gordon: Certainly an interesting aerial which will have its uses in certain applications, and if you have room for it in a loft, well fine! This self-a | |||
| Now Thats What I Call Music | C | Chris.SE Kari Gual: You shouldn t have any problem with any of the multiplexes from Emley Moor (Yorkshire region) or indeed Bilsdale (Tyne Tees region) at your locat | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | J | John Bilsdale Manual Tuning Map 13-Nov-2019 It appears CH37 COM8HD has gone? CH MUX LCN 21 BBCA 1, 2, 9, 201 ---------- Was CH26 24 D3 4 3, 4, 13, 18 ------- | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | C | Chris.SE Malcolm Lowe: The problem might be that you have two Local Light transmitters near you, one at Poole, one at Canford Heath. Both require an aeria | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | J | John Hi Chris Don t forget that there s a good chance you ll lose COM8 from Bilsdale on the 13th when it moves to UHF56 according to the predicted rece | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE John: As mentioned in my last post to you on Emley Moor Don t forget that there s a good chance you ll lose COM8 from Bilsdale on the 13th when it move | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Paul : Without a full postcode we can t check what your predicted reception is likely to be. Do you have a Wideband aerial? | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | J | Justin Eastham Hi Chris.SE, Firstly, a 5G filter for the 700MHz band will block your reception of COMs 7 8. I appreciate that. COMs 7 8 are using UHF-55 a | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | F | Fred I m also having trouble picking up 55 and 56 in Redcar. Although my aerial faces Bilsdale I could get signals from Pontop Pike too (and still can today on the n | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | F | Fred Further to my earlier comment, 55 and 56 are now working for me. Perhaps they waited until all the relays which used these frequencies were switched away from 5 | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | 4 | 4wd Checking through just now the majority of channels have bad/low signal issues I wonder if they are running at reduced power throughout due to ongoing work. I a | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Paul : Hi, I was just about to post, your predicted reception from Bilsdale is good for the 6 main muxes, but could be variable for COMs 7 8. As you | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE 4wd: Whilst information on some transmitter pages is wrong, the channels and power for the 6 main muxes here is correct. The PSBs are on 100kW COMs 4-6 | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | C | Chris.SE Stephen Crosby: If you provide a full postcode then we can check which transmitter you are receiving, whether there s any Planned Engineering and what your | |||
| Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light tr | C | Chris.SE Jimmy: If you provide a full postcode, we can have a look to see what your predicted reception might be. There are patches around that area that can get Blac | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | J | John Hi Chris As just mentioned on the Bilsdale page, the COM7 you have there is Emley Moor. As predicted you aren t getting C55 C56 from Bilsda | |||
| Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Hi John, Ch.32 is definitely Emley Moor. It s not transmitted from Bilsdale which is 55. There will be something else buried in the signal but I can t tell y | |||
| Full technical details of Freeview | C | Chris.SE gary mckenzie: What time did you retune? The HD mux may still have been off-air at the time. Try again, but first of all, unplug the aerial and do a full re | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE 4wd: Well that s up to you. Freeview s Coverage Checker does not work on place names or partial postcodes. But looking at the area in general you should get | |||
| Olivers Mount (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmit | C | Chris.SE Neil Dale: Without a full postcode, we can t look at the predicted reception at your location. However assuming it shouldn t be an issue, first I would try t | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | J | js The Digital UK monkeys still haven t updated the NIT to reflect reality. Neither have they fixed the EIT errors they are responsible for. Also, it seems t | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | J | js Chris.SE: He must think we re psychic. Having to resort to guessing his missing channels is a bit much. He doesn t even tell us if he s tried a re-scan or a | |||
| I have now lost all signal can you tell me what the problem mig | C | Chris.SE eva cowan: First, they was a major retune event in the region on the 13th, did none of you see pop-up messages on screen advising you to retune? Also see ht | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | C | Chris.SE Justin Eastham: Just to advise, yes if you are within two miles of the transmitter, you may need an attenuator and you should be able to see it so align your | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | 4 | 4wd It seems unlikely that until yesterday the aerial performed perfectly well but developed some kind of technical problem at exactly the same time they have been | |||
| Bilsdale (North Yorkshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE 4wd: It s not unlikely at all, I ll repeat what I said in a previous post - Quote So I think therein lies your problem, indoor or loft aerials can be | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | J | Justin Eastham Hi again Chris.SE ....which has been allocated for SDL mobile use. What is SDL, out of interest? None of the 700MHz band has yet been aucti | |||
| Which Freeview channels does the Chatton transmitter broadcast? | D | David Pulman Can I get Freeview channel 733 from the Chatton transmitter? |