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| Quest +1 | C | 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 | |||
| Read this: 'Jobs will be next': TV ad slump prompts more fear a | N | 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 | |||
| Read this: 'Jobs will be next': TV ad slump prompts more fear a | S | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | S | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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+ | S | 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+ | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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+ | C | 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 | C | Chris.SE StevensOnln1: Thanks :) I wonder what the weather forecast for then Is? | |||
| My ITV/C4 Freeview channels have disappeared - what can I do? | C | 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 | C | 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 | |||
| Knockmore (Moray, Scotland) DAB transmitter | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | S | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | N | 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 | |||
| Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit | S | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | S | 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 | C | 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 | C | 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 | N | 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 | C | 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 | |||
| Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE David Austin: How very odd as Bluebell Hill is not your nearest transmitter, nor predicted to give the best reception for your postcode, it s 32km away, whe | |||
| Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) Full Freeview tra | C | Chris.SE Charlie S: Hi. Well believe it or not you can supposedly get signals from 5 main transmitters, not that all would give you decent reception, so if you haven |