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| Full technical details of Freeview | S | StevensOnln1 Helen: Sandy Heath is predicted to provide a good signal for all multiplexes at your postcode, whereas Waltham is predicted to provide a good signal for PSB1/2/ | |||
| Full technical details of Freeview | C | Chris.SE Helen: Which map are you referring to? If it s the one you get from Get to see your Freeview Prediction by entering your postcode above, then I | |||
| https://ukfree.tv/radio/prediction/ | C | Chris.SE kara: If telephone lines develop bad joints or get connected to another line s wire due to insulation failure etc. then these sort of things can happen. Whe | |||
| Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmit | C | Chris.SE Keith: I can t find any faults listed for Hemel Hempstead nor is it currently listed for Planned Engineering. As you haven t given a full postcode, I can t | |||
| GREAT! movies | free and easy | C | Chris.SE tony: Great Movies Christmas(/Classic) is carried on Local multiplexes. See | |||
| Stockland Hill (Devon, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE John Berrington: Talk TV is carried on the SDN multiplex. Stockland Hill transmits all the 6 main multiplexes as listed at the top of the page (although the | |||
| Norwich Central (Norfolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Daniel Rutter : You re only 2km away, but Norwich Central is a low power relay broadcasting at just 20w to provide infill coverage in the city centre. You re pr | |||
| Norwich Central (Norfolk, England) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Daniel Rutter : To add to what StevensOnln1 has said, you may get away with a loft aerial for Tacolneston which should be pointing at a compass bearing of 2 | |||
| Details of 10B_Derbyshire DAB multiplex | C | Chris.SE melvyn dalley: BBC Radio Derby on multiplex 10B has its coverage centred around Derby. See | |||
| Windermere (Cumbria, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE J.R.Richardson: Was/is your HiFi tuner connected to an external aerial? If so, check the connections to your tuner. If it s coax to an external aerial then | |||
| Midhurst (West Sussex, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Dave: Did you not read the post immediately before yours? The highest channel used by Midhurst is C48, 690MHz. Since COM7 was closed at all of the 25 mai | |||
| Midhurst (West Sussex, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Dave: The 700MHz band clearance was completed in August 2020 and the temporary COM7 multiplex on UHF channel 56 (which was never broadcast from Midhurst) closed | |||
| Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE nick: I think he (a different chris) just clicked on the last post comment which then uses the name of the previous poster in the reply, which as it happens | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Ruth Cremin: Please provide a little more detail. Why did you have a new aerial? Do you know what type/make/model of aerial it is? Was this pixellation pro | |||
| Full technical details of Freeview | S | StevensOnln1 Nicholas Anderson: All the Welsh transmitters broadcast the same version of Channel 4 as those in England. You are probably thinking of S4C which is a completel | |||
| Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Paul Dench: The BBC are currently reporting no faults for the Salisbury transmitter. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your | |||
| Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Alan Goodall: As StevensOnln1 has pointed out, COM6 is on UHF channel 37 Unfortunately the channel listing at the top of the page has an error as well as t | |||
| Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Alan Goodall: Whilst you may get some signal for the Local multiplex from Craigkelly in your location, it s predicted to be poor as the transmission is beam | |||
| Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE MeHere: Whilst there is a Freeview transmitter at Icomb Hill (ps. this is the DAB page, but not to worry) it s a Light transmitter | |||
| Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter | A | Alan Goodall StevensOnln1: We have a relatively new aerial, installed by one of the nationwide installers. It is a cheap, bottom of the range one. Single central pole wi | |||
| Bexhill (East Sussex, England) Freeview Light transmitter | fr | C | Chris.SE Mr Jon Stevens: Firstly, frequent retuning is a very bad idea and is never recommended, especially if you have weak or no signal, or badly pixellated pictur | |||
| Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Me Here: Hi, there s often a delay before posts appear on here, I m guessing you may have posted twice (from the count) thinking your post wasn t appearing, | |||
| Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Me Here: You aren t trying my patience at all. Nothing like a good technical challenge! Unfortunately it s not possible to post photos direct, but one can | |||
| GB News | free and easy | S | StevensOnln1 Peter: What make and model of box/receiver are you using? | |||
| Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Sally Lyon: Thanks for your post Sally. It would seem highly likely then that this is mobile interference and there s no faults reported that I ve been able | |||
| GB News | free and easy | C | Chris.SE Peter: Does trying 216 instead of 217 make any difference? | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | C | Chris.SE Michael Hanlon: Some (6) channels are carried on a Local multiplex, however there are a limited number of Main transmitters that have a Local mu | |||
| Plympton (Plymouth, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Brian Hitchcock : Can t find any reported faults for the Plympton transmitter, nor its parent transmitter Caradon Hill and neither are listed for Planned En | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | C | Chris.SE Steve Beresford: You are about 49km from Sutton Coldfield, Aerial needs to point at compass bearing ~207 degrees - fractionally west of SSW with rods (or sq | |||
| Icomb Hill (Gloucestershire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE MeHere: Nice to hear, that s good, as you say hope it solves the issue. Try and put one of the filters at the input to the distribution amp/splitter. Want t | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | S | StevensOnln1 Dave: That would depend on whether the studios, transmitter and everything in the chain between them still have power. Major broadcasters will have standby gene | |||
| Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) Full Freeview transmitte | C | Chris.SE Steve Beresford: Yes log periodics have a low wind loading so with some of the winds we ve seen lately that s good news. I haven t done a survey recently of | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | C | Chris.SE Mark Scurr: You should normally expect good reception from Sandy Heath in your postcode. There are currently no faults listed and the transmitter isn t lis | |||
| Mendlesham (Suffolk, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE PETER FEWSTER: There s no faults reported that I can find and it s not currently listed for Planned Engineering. However there was some quite strong weat | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | C | Chris.SE Rick: The economic climate hasn t exactly been ideal for commercial multiplex operators and broadcasters to consider conversion of a multiplex t | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Mike Turner: See my post to ron langdon further up the page Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Free | |||
| BBC Three Linear channel re-opens | free and easy | P | peter Jummi Sassile ...err --- ----For Emperor : Window Posters not yet available. Some things ARE worse than others - Even when, Very Bad. Something ab | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | C | Chris.SE Ron eason: This sounds as though it could be some sort of interference, but it s slightly odd as you aren t experiencing (that you ve mentioned) a similar p | |||
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| BBC One HD | S | StevensOnln1 It looks like all BBC channels are set to become HD only on satellite next year. The BBC have already announced that HD versions of all BBC One regions will lau | |||
| GREAT! movies | free and easy | S | StevensOnln1 Lesley: You re predicted to be able to receive the local multiplex (which carries Great Movies Christmas) on UHF channel 35 from both Crystal Palace and Reigate | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Alan: PSB2 has definitely NOT been switched to DVB-T2 on any transmitter. That would be a major change which would make numerous commercial channels unavailable | |||
| Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Martin Stevens: By Basingstoke, I assume he s just using that as the general direction for the Hannington transmitter, which in your postcode will be due N | |||
| Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE James Watkins: I m afraid as you haven t given a full postcode, we can t say if there are any specific conditions that might affect reception in your locale | |||
| I have now lost all signal can you tell me what the problem mig | C | Chris.SE Barry Britton: Hmm, that s certainly an odd one as you say multiple TVs affected, if it had been one set I would have suggested checking the tuning. It s p | |||
| Chesterfield (Derbyshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Michael Arnold: It s most likely to be some sort of electrical interference, but to try and narrow it down, more information would be needed. How frequen | |||
| Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Philip Chadwin: If you were recently told by the aerial fitter that Oxford is down on power, then I m afraid he is not correct. There was Planned Engineerin | |||
| Clyro (County of Herefordshire, England) Freeview Light transmi | C | Chris.SE Nick Lloyd: There don t appear to have been any reported faults for the transmitter in the last 5 days, and it s not been listed for Planned Engineering rec | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) DAB transmitter | J | Jack Adkin What DAB radio stations are transmitted from Waltham Transmitter ? | |||
| Wenvoe (Cardiff, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE A reminder that COM7 has now closed (COM8 closed in 2020) so, The UHF channels for Wenvoe are C41, C44, C47, C42, C45, C39, C37 that s in the multiplex order B |