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Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV For the last six years, I have answered many thousands of personal emails that you have sent to UK Free TV.
Sadly, I am unable to offer this personal service at the moment.
Until I can restore this service, please can you leave any questions you have on an appropriate page, where they will be answered as soon as possible, or below, if you can't figure out where to ask.
I look forward to your questions!
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Saturday, 26 July 2014
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Steve P11:48 PM
steve is this something that used to work and stopped or something newly set up?
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jb3811:59 PM
steve: Watching DVD's on a TV is usually done via (as said by sharealam) either a scart cable or an HDMI lead, the socket on the TV used for this purpose being selected via the "Input select" button on the TV's remote control.
If though your DVD player is coupled into your TV's aerial socket via some form of RF modulator, then set the TV on "analogue" and carry out a retune to recover the channel.
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Thursday, 31 July 2014
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Mike Lane5:30 PM
Whose idea was it to use frequencies for 4G which seem to affect Freeview reception over most of the populated areas of the UK?
Not Vince Cable again???
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Steve Coombs8:38 PM
Fordingbridge
Hi - very frustrated with the loss of my freeview on all my sets that have freeview inbuilt. Televisions run off two separate aerials (2 on one) and both aerials on each side of house pointed towards the same transmitter due to trees obscuring other transmitter but both are completely independent systems. I lost freeview on all tv's at the same time - recently found this site - found retuning instructions and it worked. Felt very pleased with self only to have again lost all pictures and although following guide as before all televisions refuse to acknowledge any aerial connection. Really not sure what is going on given that I did manage to reconnect once - anyone got any thoughts? Am beginning to think this is a conspiracy! Thanks in advance
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10:02 PM
10:02 PM
Mike Lane:
I believe it was determined by Ofcom.
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MikeB10:04 PM
Steve Coombs: You asked the much the same question on the 20th. Did you check that both aerials are seperate? Are connected to a booster or splitter? And that there are no breaks, loose connections, etc?
As I said before, the chances of two seperate systems both failing at the same time is very unlikely. It could be that the wiring on both aerials has developed much the same problem at the same time, and perhaps heavy rain has put in on the blink. Its possible that the coax was just intact enough to get a retune after drying out, but now its gone.
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Friday, 1 August 2014
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jb3812:20 AM
Steve Coombs : Another point to note being, that aerials have to be vertically mounted to take full advantage of the high power COM transmissions from Rowridge, these being on 200Kw compared to 50Kw on the horizontally polarised transmissions, the PSB transmissions being on 200Kw on both polarities.
If your aerials are already mounted vertically? then your problem could be due to the aforementioned trees, or possibly related to the atmospheric conditions prevailing at this present time, as a terrain check indicates that the signal path from the Rowridge transmitter suffers from multiple obstructions starting from around 8 miles prior to your location, this meaning that reception is via diffraction (signal bending), signals received in this way being extremely vulnerable to problems caused by atmospheric conditions.
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Steve Coombs7:30 PM
Fordingbridge
Mike and jb38 thanks for taking the time to respond - the aerials as far as I know are completely separate so it may well be that somewhere along the line the issue is as you describe Mike - looks like the ladders for me tomorrow - jb you also make a good point around atmospheric conditions and the signal path - the aerials both face the same way and prior to tis we did experience interference - unfortunately the trees at the front of the house that prevent me from tuning towards the closer transmitter are just too high. And have a bloody preservation order on them -tv reception is the least of my worries! Investigations will begin and I will report back but again thanks so much for your interest and time.
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Saturday, 2 August 2014
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jb3812:35 AM
Steve Coombs : Thanks for the update, I fully understand your frustration regarding the offending trees being protected by having a preservation order on them, as even although many dastardly things can happen under the hours of darkness, its always guaranteed that someone somewhere would be observing any activities that might take place.
By the way, although many people loath having to make contact with any of their neighbours, but though have you made any local enquiries to find out if anyone else in your area is suffer from similar reception problems as yourself?
Anyway, will look forward to your report..
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