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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?
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
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Matthew Bell7:45 PM
Newbury
Constance Hawthorne:
I see...another Freeview geek to hell and back around here. Yes, that makes a lot of sense.
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Thursday, 31 July 2025
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Matthew Bell11:37 AM
Newbury
Anyway, if anyone needs help, ask me. I'm especially good at anything related to the Hannington transmitter. Just ask me, and I'll answer when I can.
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Saturday, 27 December 2025
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Leila Andrew-Haskins7:25 PM
Basingstoke
Wow, no one's been on this page since the end of July!
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Sunday, 28 December 2025
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Chris.SE1:19 AM
Leila Andrew-Haskins:
True, but then the site owner doesn't appear to have done any updates of late (not that we've noticed anyway!). The spam filtering has gone down the drain, the "Your comments" page is over-burdened with spam posts, you miss any real ones, and my weekly emails regurgitate posts I made yonks ago, I don't really bother to read them any more. Shame. This was an excellent site.
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Leila Andrew-Haskins8:28 AM
Basingstoke
Chris.SE: I agree. I'm one of those Freeview enthusiasts or whatever name we go by, and I found this website, expecting to see some (probably) friendly people who just want to know why their Freeview box/-capable TV/aerial won't work, and instead I see...mostly spam bots and the occasional actually human message that someone else already responded to.
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Chris.SE11:34 PM
Leila Andrew-Haskins:
The Spam bots didn't used to be that much of a problem, it's ever since a site server software update (upgrade?).
There are two of us friendly people that tend to respond regularly on the site, you've just had a response from the other one :) and there's an occasional third who's very good on terrain plots and the likes.
I've not been able to contact the site owner in recent times through channels that used to work, but I also know he had some health problems, so maybe that's why some rather obvious things haven't been resolved. We muddle through as best we can.
I've started looking at the "Can you help" section of the menu in case I can spot a post we may have missed due to the sometimes very long list of spam on "Your comments", but what appears there is an automated thing and often depends on whether someone (maybe us) asked a question - which may have already been dealt with.
The disappointing thing is often, those that had a problem and asked a question, don't always come back and tell whether our reply helped or answer further questions because we need more info. Maybe they just forgot where the posted sometimes so don't see the response, but that isn't uncommon, I've seen it elsewhere as well!
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