All posts by Richard Cooper
Below are all of Richard Cooper's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Paul: Hi, Paul. Quoting from the official Digital UK website, "Latest News: Viewers in some parts of the UK may experience temporary disruption to their TV signal today due to high atmospheric pressure. We advise that you do not retune - reception will return to normal once this weather system passes." Should have passed us by by Saturday, all being well! Richard, Norwich.
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Tracy Jackson-Brown: Hi Tracy. There are no faults or engineering works at the Bromsgrove transmitter today. As regards your tv licence, it is not just for watching the BBC. It is necessary to have a tv licence to view any LIVE tv programmes and this also includes if you record a live programme and then watch it later. I hope this clarifies things for you. Richard, Norwich.
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j jenkins : Is it worth checking that there is no other electrical or electronic equipment in your accommodation that could be causing interference to your Freeview reception? For example, you could check what happens when fridges, freezers and washing machines turn on or off. Do you have any switched power supply plugs or power line telecommunications plugs (PLT). Do you have any leaky HDMI equipment or leads which can cause interference on Freeview receivers? I am assuming you have checked all of the obvious, such as the connection between the wall plate and your receiver... Were you aware that West Midlands Freeview television transmitters were reconfigured on the PSB1 mux on 1st June, so you should have carried out a retune since 1st June anyway? Richard, Norwich.
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Trevor Carpenter: Good morning, Trevor. The Heathfield transmitter does not have any issues or engineering work on it today. The following advice, however, is given on the Digital UK website today: "Latest News: Viewers in some parts of the UK may experience temporary disruption to their TV signal today due to high atmospheric pressure. We advise that you do not retune - reception will return to normal once this weather system passes." Hope this helps. Obviously, if you have done a retune already, your equipment will have lost the channels stored in it before you did so,and therefore, another retune will be required. It is important, however, not to carry out another retune until the high pressure system has dissipated, otherwise, if your receiver picks up and stores signals, it will probably pick them up from somewhere else, other than Heathfield, and you do not want this to happen, so please wait patiently until you know the atmospheric pressure has lowered before you retune again. Richard Cooper, Norwich, Friday 10th. June, 11:00 a.m.
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shirley cooper: Hi Shirley. Regretfully, you have been unable to learn from the many excellent comments made on the ukfree.tv website this week concerning weather conditions, all of which have been accurate, factually correct and certainly not 'an excuse' for a 'poor signal' or 'no signal' message on Freeview screens. Tacolneston is already running at a very high power, and, as you surmise in your post, cannot have its power increased any further. The Tacolneston mast is run by a company called Arqiva. Arqiva's telephone number is 01962 823434, should you wish to contact the company. It runs most of the transmitters in the country, but has to abide by Government and international agreements about transmitter powers. Hope this helps, Richard, Norwich.
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Mary Macer: Well said, Mary (in your last post!). I must say I have had picture and sound break-up on PSB 2 (D3+4) multiplex when the pressure was only 1014 millibars, when standard atmospheric pressure is 1013.25 millibars, so the pressure doen't need to be much higher than normal for atmospheric conditions to start affecting tv reception. This surprised me as much as it seems to have surprised you. The pressure here in Norwich is currently 1013 millibars, so hopefully that's decreased enough for us not to experience any more break-up for a while! Richard.
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Mark A: Hi, Mark. It may be of interest to some viewers of this ukfree.tv site that the BBC have recently announced that other regions in addition to your region will be getting more BBC Local radio via Freeview from Tuesday, here in the East we got ours n Monday the 6th. Here's the link:
BBC - Launching BBC Local Radio stations onto Freeview - Help Receiving TV and Radio
Regards, Richard, Norwich.
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Barbara Oxley: Hi, Barbara. I notice that True Movies 1 is transmitted on a group of channels called the GIM multiplex from Winter Hill and that these channels are transmitted at a lower power of 1000 watts, whereas the main groups of channels from Winter Hill are transmitted at 100,000 watts. When you say you live near Winter Hill, how near ? Can you see the mast from your bedroom window? I'm wondering whether the receiver circuitry in the other tvs in your house is more sensitive than that in your new Samsung? The other question is whether you are feeding it a strong enough signal? Is it fed from a distribution amplifier with multiple outlets in your loft? And are the other tvs fed from that box too? Answers to these questions will help us to help you further. Your full postcode will help us too. Thanks, Richard, Norwich.
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Briantist: In the East (East sub-region), we already have Suffolk now: it began on Monday 6th. June about 1 p.m. It's on 720. Norfolk remains on 719. In this sub-region, we also now have: London on 721, Cambridgeshire on 722,which we had already, prior to 6/6/2016) and finally we have Essex on 734. All new ones started 1 p.m. 6/6/2016 from TAC and SUD. It wouldn't be right or fair for me to comment on the rest of your 'waiting list', because I feel that those that respond should be 'natives' of the regions on which they are commenting. Off topic, slightly, do you know whether there've been any developments on local DAB muxes for the Channel Islands? Can't find anything on Ofcom or elsewhere about this published since about 2011!!! By the way, for your info, Brian, BBC Radio York is now on the North Yorkshire local DAB multiplex run by Muxco, according to wohnort, which is normally pretty reliable! Richard.
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Thursday 9 June 2016 12:47PM
Norwich
tim hopkinson: Hi Tim. I quote from the Digital UK website: "Latest News: Viewers in some parts of the UK may experience temporary disruption to their TV signal today due to high atmospheric pressure. We advise that you do not retune - reception will return to normal once this weather system passes." Weather forecasters are predicting that by Saturday the high pressure weather system will have passed us by. Richard, Norwich.