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| Pwll-glas (Denbighshire, Wales) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Keith Vivian: Update - apart from the transmitter being on the Planned Engineering list this week where - Screen may go black on some or all channel | |||
| Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) Full Freeview trans | C | Chris.SE Mike Howard: Even though the transmitter isn t on the current list (we know that the lists aren t always 100% accurate), my suspicion is that work is still | |||
| Talking Pictures TV | C | Chris.SE edward rowley: Was it not on at 1630 today, according to my EPG? Not sure when it was on before or when on next as we can t help as this is not their websit | |||
| Castlederg (Northern Ireland) Freeview Light transmitter | S | Steve Donaldson Noleen Logue: BBC Reception [bbc.co.uk/reception] says that the Castlederg transmitter is Off the air due to a fault since 05:08 this morning. One o | |||
| Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit | S | StevensOnln1 Roger: It may well be the same ongoing work, the Crystal Palace transmitter tower is 60+ years old and probably requires extensive ongoing maintenance to ensure | |||
| Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit | C | Chris.SE Roger: Arqiva who do the transmitter work never give any details about the work or duration, so the automated feeds never have any detail as already said by | |||
| Preseli (Pembrokeshire, Wales) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE G H Martyn: Apart from the fact that the transmitter is having Planned Engineering (see post just before yours) which will probably exacerbate the problem, | |||
| Are digital TV pictures better? | Help! Difference between syst | C | Chris.SE Mac: HI Mac. Firstly posts on this site do not display immediately most of the time whilst they are filtered by spam and swear filters ..... whi | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | C | Chris.SE Jeff: Really, some of that advice is a bit out of date and was more useful during pre-DSO and DSO days. Some also applied during the 800MHz and 700MHz prog | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | S | Steve Donaldson Jeff: The Valley meanders quite a bit which means you are quite a way off having line-of-sight, with several peaks in the way within four miles of your location | |||
| Detailed comparison Freeview/Sky | C | Chris.SE Les: I can t answer specifically as I don t have Freesat, hopefully someone who has will respond. I suspect it ll be similar to Freeview and what s availab | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | C | Chris.SE Christopher Peachey: Well there s several possibilities here. We ll leave aside the possibility of a problem with the aerial installation (water in the con | |||
| Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit | S | StevensOnln1 Roger: Arqiva are paid by the broadcasters and multiplex operators, who probably do have access to more detailed information. Arqiva are not generally a public | |||
| Croyde (Devon, England) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Ken: Can t find any faults reported at present, doesn t mean there is one BUT the Croyde relay is fed off-air from Caradon Hill which has planned engineerin | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Simon McCurdy: There has been planned engineering work affecting the Winter Hill transmitter over the last few weeks, so it may just be that the signal strength | |||
| The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Stephen: The Local multiplex that carries Channel 7 Birmingham TV (and a couple of other channels) is not broadcast the same as the other multiplexes nor is | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | B | buy gold with cash I leave a response each time I appreciare a ppost on a wesite or I have something to valuable to contribute tto the discussion. Usually it s triggered by the | |||
| The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Stephen: Hi. Yes undoubtedly it s likely to be Sutton Coldfield, so you ll find the mux on C48 in your tuning section. It ll no doubt be a weaker signal wi | |||
| Brecon VHF (Powys, Wales) DAB transmitter | I | Iwona Kurjanska In this area - Brecon, Wales - the DAB singal was weak very often and now it s gone completely. Are you really here to help people? In what way ? The best hel | |||
| Brecon VHF (Powys, Wales) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Iwona Kurjanska: This is not the transmitter engineers website, nor the electricity suppliers, nor the BBC s but the BBC have reported the problem - From 10 | |||
| Llanuwchllyn (Gwynedd, Wales) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Ann Roberts: I hope your mother didn t retune when she had no signal as this would have just cleared the correct tuning. As the transmitter is currently list | |||
| Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE David Young: Hi. As you may have noticed from the post immediately before yours, there is Planned Engineering at the transmitter at present so that might ha | |||
| Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light tr | C | Chris.SE jimmy: Hi again. I d doubt it s just the fog causing disruption. This transmitter is a relay of Darvel which is listed for Planned Engineering, so this coul | |||
| Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter | C | Chris.SE Kenneth Johnson : As you can see from he post following yours, the BBC are reporting problems due to current (tropospheric) weather conditions. In addition | |||
| Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter | K | Kenneth Johnson I understand what you mean Chris. The signal failures look more like engineering work with periodic dropouts followed by broken signal for a few seconds, loss o | |||
| Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmit | C | Chris.SE Gerald: I presume you ve read the replies we ve given to Roger. Personally I don t have the time to go chasing either Freeview - whose front facing servic | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | C | Chris.SE Nicholas Anderson: Do you even bother to read the previous replies that you ve been given? As I ve remarked previously, I know the site owner was unwell | |||
| Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 nick horrex: Streaming channels in the 260-299 range broadcast a portal on one of the Freeview multiplexes, which gives the TV the URL (address) to connect to a | |||
| Malvern (Worcestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Tom Brooke: The transmitter engineering posts immediately above yours warn of planned engineering work this week and a fault last night. Did you attempt to retu | |||
| Malvern (Worcestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Tom Brooke: Stevnsonln1 has explained what happens if you retune when you have No Signal, you cannot tune to signals that aren t there! The BBC have not re | |||
| Freeview intermittent interference | Freeview Interference | C | Chris.SE Jo: Hello Jo, sorry nearly missed your post amongst all the spam that s been appearing. To start, just a point of clarity, a surge filter would | |||
| Brierley Hill (Dudley, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Simon smout: Sorry we missed your post. As you can see from the posts both previous and after yours, the transmitter is the subject of Planned Engineering a | |||
| (45/3546892535) | C | Chris.SE Nick: It ll no doubt be due to the high pressure weather conditions. Which Local station are you getting on 10C? 10C is used by several different regions a | |||
| Sudbury (Suffolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE nick horrex: 1) Have the filters arrived? How did they affect things? 2) You could buy yourself a Box or probably better to get a smart stick if you have s | |||
| Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter | C | Chris.SE Otto: As you have pointed out, this occurs when it s a live broadcast (and recording it will make no difference). The speech has to be processed by speech | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE denyse shorrocks: This is most likely down to current weather conditions - | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | S | Steve Donaldson Philip Johns: The St Austell relay got a big power boost at digital switchover in 2009. There was also a change of antenna which sends out more signal particula | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Philip Johns: I m afraid how much we pay for the licence fee has no effect on the weather! Yes we could have more power (and breach international agreement | |||
| Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Ja Fisher: Sorry we seem to have missed your post the other day, probably because of all the spoam that s appearing. Your issue is most likely because of cu | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | C | Chris.SE Owen: Whilst you are correct in your comments, I m not sure that in practise it actually gave more margin against interference. DTV is more efficient and t | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Jeremy Greenaway: It would be more helpful if you could be more specific about exactly which channels you ve had problems with, Sky and Blaze are carried on | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE Steve Donaldson: Whilst your analysis is always thorough, earlier when I checked, both the BBC transmitter checker and the Freeview one predicted good recep | |||
| The Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin, England) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Henry Porcher: Whilst you ve posted on the DAB transmitter page rather than the Freeview one where it says that it s horizontally polarised, as you haven t | |||
| Swingate (Kent, England) DAB transmitter | S | Steve Donaldson John Terry: Boom Radio is carried on the Sound Digital national multiplex on 11A. Sound Digital is the second national commercial multiplex which launched in 20 | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE michael: Hi michael, Happy New Year to you. Can you not turn off the automatic updating on that obviously not very clever smart TV? What bran | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | M | michael Chris : The bad boy is a Panasonic. Their customer service confirmed that this wonderful feature cannot be turned off... We have another smartie which does allo | |||
| Bow Brickhill (Milton Keynes, England) DAB transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 Martin Fox: BBC 3 Counties is broadcast using DAB (rather than DAB+) which should make it receivable on any DAB or DAB+ radio within the coverage area. You can | |||
| Balgownie (Aberdeen City, Scotland) DAB transmitter | C | Chris.SE Allan Robertson: Boom Radio is carried on the SDL National multiplex Block 11A: 216.928 MHz, so if you are having problems with it s reception, you should h | |||
| Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitter | C | Chris.SE michael: No problem, just wanted to know which was the bad boy! | |||
| C46 (674.0MHz) after switchover | R | Rex Duffy C46 Hannington.I receive all on this multiplex except Talking Pictures and Rewind TV.How does that happen whe I receive everything else available from Hanni |