Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter

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12:06 PM

Peter: Is your pointing at (305degrees) or (72degrees)?

Do you get London programming or Meridian programming?

Perhaps your aerial is on one but your TV is tuned to the other.

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John
5:47 PM
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RG2 8TX ITV,CHANNEL4 and a few more, keep freezing on the fantastic. Do retune pick up all when searching, but seem only to be able to view in the 800's BBC1&2 ITV and ITV+1 AND RABBIT Channels. 16:00 PM today. Please tell us if we have to do a retune every day or what?

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2:04 PM

John: There was no requirement to retune as the frequencies used for from have not changed.

There were two possibilities:

1. If your unit was tuned correctly, then retuning won't because issues with lie elsewhere. This will provide no benefit but there is the potential to make matters worse because your could tune to the wrong .

2. If your unit was not tuned correctly, then retuning was necessary since the time it was last tuned (incorrectly). In this case, you were tuned to a signal from a direction (transmitter) to which your aerial does not face, thus reception issues are to be expected.

If your aerial points to Hannington, then do a full with the aerial unplugged. When it gets to 33% plug it in. This will mean that the aerial is unplugged whilst scanning the used by which carries London services, but plugged in for Hannington.

Once you have done this, you can verify that your receiver is tuned correctly by checking the UHF it is tuned to for the following services:

BBC One Ch50
BBC Four Ch46
ITV1 Ch43
ITV3 Ch40
Pick TV Ch44
Yesterday Ch41

This information is usually given on the signal strength/ screen. It may be described as "Channel", "Ch", "UHF channel" or some variation thereof.

Once you have established that these channels are correct, then there is no need to retune until 8th February. If you have issues, then it is not the tuning that is at fault.

J

June Matthews
11:03 PM

In the last couple of months we have bought a new LG TV with HD and Humax HD Freeview PVR ready for . Everything was working fine until a few of days ago. First no ITV then ITV came back & no BBC . Occasionally we have no channels. At the moment we have had no BBC for 2 days. We live nearer to but have to get out TV from . We are pensioners with no technical knowledge. All the above advice seems double dutch.If anything needs re-setting up, we will have to pay someone to do it for us. Who do we contact eg company or what?

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9:40 AM

June Matthews: Can you please see, in the first instance, Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?

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10:46 AM

June Matthews: It is only two months until 's which will see its boosted in strength. If the low signal strength is what is causing your issue, then any change of will only be of for the next couple of months (if your current aerial is sufficient post-switchover).

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Andrew
8:15 PM

Hi,

Should I be able to recieve HD from ?

Andrew

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8:22 PM

Andrew: No, HD from is not available until on 22nd February.

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omar
7:15 PM

Hi,
bbc2 has been switched of today, i take it the scheduleb for switch over has been bought forward..??? When are the remaining going to be swithed off..??

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8:03 AM

omar: No switch, just a fault.