All posts by Richard Cooper
Below are all of Richard Cooper's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Sonia: Hi, Sonia. The following information might explain the reason for your inability to receive Magic Soul Summer on a DAB radio where you are, "Magic Soul Summer is available on local DAB (in mono) in London, Birmingham, Teesside, Tyne and Wear, Humberside, Leeds, Edinburgh, Northern Ireland, Tayside (including Dundee) and Inverness and across the UK on mobile and via the Magic radio website." (Courtesy of a516digital.com). Richard, Norwich.
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P bower: Good Morning, P Bower. In Fareham, as you are probably aware, your best Freeview tv transmitter is Rowridge on the Isle of Wight. Your aerial should be pointing South-South-West. Check that it is pointing in that direction by comparing with neighbours' aerial orientations. If it is going to be necessary to re-orientate your aerial, carry out a risk assessment prior to climbing up and re-orientating it towards Rowridge. Is your aerial in good condition, with all director elements and the reflector grid or elements attached and intact? Is the down-lead in good condition with no signs of water ingress? Are all of the electrical connections between aerial cabling and living room wall-plate and at each end of the fly-lead between the wall-plate and the tv set in good order? Once you have checked all of the above, DISCONNECT the aerial lead from your tv and carry out a 'first-time installation' type of retune. A message should come op stating, 'no channels found'. This is so that the tv 'forgets' the channels it had stored before but also forgets any 'corrupt data' within it. Re-connect the aerial lead and then carry out another 'first -time installation' retune. Now you should have all available channels listed including the itv channels you had 'lost'. Hope this helps, Richard, Norwich.
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Sonia: Hi, Sonia. I replied to you on Sunday (yesterday at 8:38 a.m.) Since then, I've had another idea that is that Magic Soul Summer could be transmitted in DAB+ (DAB Plus) format rather than ordinary DAB. This could explain the reason for your being able to receive the station on one of your DAB radios but not the other if the radio on which you cannot receive Magic Soul Summer is the DAB radio that you own which doesn't support DAB+. It tends to be only DAB radios that people have bought fairly recently that definitely support DAB+, whereas DAB radios bought some years ago didn't have the DAB plus circuitry built in. You can even buy cheap DAB radios to this day that don't support DAB+ whereas those that are a little dearer tend to do so. Richard, Norwich.
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Pauline: Good to hear that you have an engineer looking at your aerial this week. Richard, Norwich.
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jb38: Hi, jb38. Aerials that used to be classified as 'wideband' or group 'W' have recently been re-classified as 'total band' or group 'T' since the bandwidth used for tv transmissions was reduced from channels 21 to 68 to channels 21 to 60 since channels above 60 were sold off to 4G. Just so you are aware when accurately advising other tv viewers who post on this site. Richard, Norwich.
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nick: Hi, Nick. As you've stated that channel 60 was particularly difficult, I suspect you may well need a 4Gfilter. You can get one entirely free of charge from the organisation that is out there to prevent tv viewers from getting tv interference from 4G 'phone masts. Here is its web address:-
at800 | 4G & Freeview | 4G interference | 4G Filters | 800 MHz
Hope this helps, Richard, Norwich. Tuesday, 9th. August, 2016.
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MikeP: Thank you for that, Mike. I note that log periodic aerials are popular at those transmitter sites which receive signals from another transmitter and then re-transmit to a smaller area, and so it may well be probable that a greater number of domestic consumers will consider their use for their tv reception in the future. Richard, Norwich.
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Glyn Sloman: Hi, Glyn. The simple answer to your question is that West Runton probably won't have more channels added, at least until when all Freevew TV becomes HD only, using the DVB-T2 system, which will be at the end of this decade at the earliest, but probably more likely in the early 2020s. It is not currently economically viable for broadcasters to apply to put their channels on to Freeview Light transmitters such as West Runton. You could invest in a tall pole and a high gain aerial plus signal amplifiers in order to receive Tacolneston, but North Norfolk District Council is unlikely to give you planning permission for the tall pole. Richard, Norwich.
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D: Regarding Com 7 & Com 8 from the 30 main transmitters that transmit these two multiplexes, at the next tv digital switchover (DSO2), Com 7 & Com 8 will cease to exist. DSO2 will occur either later this decade or early in the 2020s, when everybody will be forced to receive Freeview tv in HD (high definition) and SD (standard definition) will cease to be transmitted. As a consequence of the plan for DSO2 as explained above, there are no plans for increasing the powers of Com 7 & Com 8 between now and the date of DSO2. Richard, Norwich.
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Saturday 6 August 2016 11:35AM
Martin Locock: Hi, Martin. Indeed you're correct. Hopefully, the owner of the UKFREE.TV site, Brian Butterworth, will read your posts and correct accordingly! Richard, Norwich.