All posts by Richard Cooper
Below are all of Richard Cooper's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Arthur: Hi, Arthur. The holiday channel is on Freesat channel 409 , or if you have Sky, Sky channel 256. Hope this helps you. Richard, Norwich.
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Carolyn Townshend : Vintage tv is on Freeview channel 82. To get it you need (1) an HD (high definition) Freeview receiver and (2) your local Freeview transmitter needs to transmit the group of channels which contains it. This is known as COM 7. Not all tv transmitters transmit COM7, which is only available to 76% of the population. For one of these two reasons, you may not be able to receive Vintage tv where you are, Carolyn. Richard, Norwich.
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Steven Seeds: Hi, Steven. BBC4HD was temporarily moved from the COM7 multiplex to the PSB3 multiplex for the duration of the Summer Olympic Games Competition, but has now returned to the COM 7 multiplex. It is worth carrying out a re-tune on any of the HD receiving devices that are in your possession that haven't been retuned since the Olympics finished so that all your HD receivers have up-to-date channel lists.
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mary: Hi, Mary. Th Horror Channel is on Freeview channel 70. As long as you get your Freeview signals from a MAIN Full Freeview transmitter, you should be able to receive it, but if you get your tv signals come from a Freeview Light relay transmitter you won't be able to get it. Try TWO re-tunes, the first with you aerial lead unplugged, to clear the receiver memory, and then a second retune, this time with the aerial lead plugged back in again.Hopefully, the channel will then appear in your channel list. The channel to which you refer has been in my channel list since I did a retune in May earlier this year. Hope this helps, Richard, Norwich.
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Brian Taylor: Hi, Brian. I would advise that you check in your instruction manual that the VHF Band III Block 12B is covered by your Beat 390. The frequency range for this block is 224.880 to 226.416, centre frequency, 225.648 Megahertz. Furthermore is your Beat 390 manufactured for the UK market? Richard, Norwich.
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Edwin: Hi, again, Edwin. An outdoor DAB aerial should definitely enable you to pick up more DAB stations than an indoor DAB aerial, so you did the right thing to install one because the outdoor aerial can 'pull in' signals from DAB transmitters that an indoor aerial wouldn't. I've not seen any information on hiccups since the changes were made in the Humberside area at the end of August, so I can only assume that everything is supposed to be working as intended. I've had one more thought, though. Recently, there was a station I could not get on one of my DAB radios and it turned out that the station was transmitting using the new DAB+ mode instead of 'ordinary' DAB. This meant that I had to go out and buy a newer DAB radio equipped with DAB+, those quality manufacturers manufacturing radios with 'plus capability' since about 2011, and marking them with the 'digital tick'. I was just wondering whether the recent changes in Humberside include a few stations moving into DAB+ transmissions. I don't know, but this is just a possibility! The only further changes of which I'm aware is the completion of the rollout of 'filler' transmitters by the end of this month, but without knowing exactly where you are, I don't know if any fillers have been planned for your locality. Richard, Norwich.
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StevensOnln1: Thanks for the info informing me of the fact that Ofcom has cleared 75 transmitters for SDL and I would definitely be interested in seeing the full list. I should've realised that Belmont and High Hunsley are transmitting SDL and I apologise for my ignorance on those. Unfortunately, where I live, in the Norwich area, I would think it unlikely that any transmitters have been cleared by Ofcom around here, apart, perhaps from Mendlesham, due to our proximity to Holland and Belgium, to which we used to cause TVI in the sixties and seventies! Anyway, I very much forward to you posting the link to the Ofcom list of 75 if you're successful in finding it. Thank you, Richard, Norwich.
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StevensOnln1: Thank you for finding and posting the list of future approved SDL transmitters. I am aware that additional transmitters to the 45 current ones would need to be commercially viable for SDL broadcasters for them to adopt any of these additional transmitter sites, largely dependent upon the populations they serve. Thanks again for posting the link, which I've put into my 'favourites', thanks. Richard, Norwich.
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Jan Davies: Hi, Jan. Interference with European DAB transmissions by ours is only likely to occur when there are high pressure conditions and there are temperature inversions, quite a few of which we've had this summer, and which have caused disruption to UK viewers' Freeview television reception. These interference effects tend to occur more at certain frequencies than others, so remember that there will be European DAB muxes using DAB channel 11A, used by our Sound Digital multiplex. I have to admit I have not seen any official report anywhere stating that the East coast of England can't have Sound Digital DAB transmitters, rather it is simply what I have read on the websites I visit such as www.a516digital.com. Also remember that future Sound Digital transmitter sites have to have been approved by the UK broadcast communications regulator, Ofcom. I found out today from a contributor to this website that Ofcom has actually approved at least 75 transmission sites for Sound Digital, but only 45 have been taken up by broadcasters as being commercially viable at the moment. It was a surprise to me, given what I'd read about interference to the Continent that Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft (Oulton) had been approved by Ofcom as future Sound Digital transmitter sites, but as the residents are not very affluent around there, the Sound Digital broadcasters would appear to have decided it's not worth their while putting Sound Digital on to these transmitters yet. Richard, Norwich.
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Saturday 3 September 2016 3:22PM
Colin D: Hi, Colin. The current roll-out of new DAB transmitters is due for completion by the end of this month, so hopefully, Linford Wood will be on air by then. Richard, Norwich. PS. Are there no other DAB transmitters you could receive in your area, such as Bow Brickhill, for example?