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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
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antonT9:50 PM
At the moment I receive Eurosport International analogue for free through the Astra satellite. Eurosport are now going digital on the astra Satellite. How do I get Eurosport for free from now?
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sparky: Where abouts are you? If you are close to the transmitter, it could be overloading your receiver. See Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
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sparky12:59 PM
sparky: hi Dave,thanks for the reply.
Location is the Chilterns 160m above sea level there is nothing higher I believe between me and Crystal palace.
I have been doing a few experiments to track this down.
All channels are fine while not recording.
If I try to record BBC 1 (havent tried 3 or 4) it degrades 1, 2 and BBC news but not the other channels such as ITV 1 ,yesterday,5 etc.
If I record on ITV1,yesterday etc. every thing works OK except for the BBC channels which are again degraded.
I tried the indoor aerial again,this time I lowered the aluminium blind (still in the open position)in the path of the signal,I then lost all the commercial channels but not the BBC!
This seems a trifle strange,supposing the BBC signal is too strong,if I use an attenuator I may lose the other channels.
Perhaps I ought to buy a new set and save time and effort.
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sparky: The BBC standard definition channels from CP are now at full switchover power whereas the rest are not.
Check that BBC One is coming in on UHF channel 23 as at the first stage of switchover relays begin broadcasting BBC digital for the first time and being high up your receiver could have tuned to one of them for BBC.
Also ensure that the RF out (if there is one) does not clash although I doubt it as C23 was used previously for ITV analogue anyway.
Depending on what you find, worst case scenario may be that you will have to use the set-top aerial for one and the roof-top one for the other until 18th April when you will see if it rights itself.
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sparky: Also, does your recorder have two tuners in and if so does the problem occur when recording from one mux and watching (via the recorder) from it? Or is it just when watching another mux via your TV's own in-built tuner?
Without the blind in the way, how does your set-top aerial fair with respect to recording BBC One and watching ITV1 or vice versa?
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sparky3:49 PM
sparky: hi Dave,thanks for the reply.
confirmed: BBC is coming in on c23.
The recorder has ,I think,only one tuner(I can only record one program at a time and watch 1 recording at the same time).
not sure what you mean by Rf out,the recorder is connected to an analogue television by SCART, there is a Rf thru-link to the TV aerial socket for analogue reception.
The set top aerial has about the same performance as the multi-band aerial(funny enough)the only difference I have noticed is the multi-band is not affected by passing aircraft,trucks and motorcycles with no suppressors fitted!
what I don't understand is why the BBC channels which were and supposedly still are the stronger channels, are degraded while the weaker ones are not.
The behaviour has changed slightly since last night as the recording of BBC channels were degrading *all* other channels now it is just the BBC ones.
perhaps if I leave it for some more time it will rectify itself!
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jb384:55 PM
sparky: On the subject of your aerial, if you have found that you getting roughly the same results on BBC when using an indoor aerial then its almost guaranteed that you will be receiving an excessively high level from your main aerial, and something which is liable to cause slight overloading in the tuner, the misleading aspect of this situation being that symptoms experienced are "exactly" the same to that of a weak signal.
By the way, its not uncommon to find reception being difficult from the low powered commercials in areas where the BBC is on full power and has to be attenuated to alleviate overload problems.
Regarding RF outputs, what Dave Lindsay is referring to is that "some" PVR's such as a Humax 9200 have analogue RF modulated outputs to feed whatever is being viewed (or played back) on the box to be fed into a TV in another room, and this RF output can clash with other signals being received if the output channel used on the box isn't carefully chosen not to.
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sparky9:41 PM
sparky: thanks for the reply.
I will try an attenuator to see if that will improve the situation.
i am not used to all this digital stuff,bring back the old analogue signal meters with needles that moved and told the truth!
by the way BBC 4 has popped up on epg 802 didn't notice it last night,however if i record on 802 it behaves perfectly with no degradation of signal on 802 althogh it still affects all the other bbc channels, unlike bbc 4 on epg 8 which degrades 8 (itself) and all bbc channels except 802.strange.
i will post the results obtained with the attenuator,thanks again for your help.
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Chris.SE10:45 PM
Briantist:
Could I please draw your attention to my post Wednesday 28 March 2012 10:22PM on Freeview on Mendip TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Thanks.
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sparky: BBC Four, CBeebies and BBC Parliament along with BBC radio stations will be duplicated between first and second stage of switchover. This is because before switchover they are carried in a different mux and at switchover all BBC standard definition services move into a single mux. Thus you have the new BBC standard definition mux (C23) and the old Mux B (C28). Go to the signal strength screen to hopefully identify which is which.
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