All posts by colin1951uk
Below are all of colin1951uk's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Dave Lindsay: So it's only mandatory for the COMs is it?
We get everything else running on the 21st March if I understand you correctly.
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Dave Lindsay: Thanks a lot for the clarification..now I understand what's going on.
Cheers..Colin
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Solent-Viewer I think Roweridge has been having intermittent problems since Monday (the 12th.)
On that Monday afternoon (14:00hrs) I was watching a film on 4+1 and after about twenty minutes started getting pixelation and the 'no signal' warning problems forever appearing. I thought it was just that channel but after about five minutes I flicked through every station and found everything was screwed up in a similar way (and the only channel I could get was Film 4.) I had to give up watching but left my set on and checked it from time to time and at around 17:00hrs everything was back to normal.
Now weather would not have affected every channel with interference as I experienced it and my belief is something is wrong with the transmitter and they try to fix it outside of peak time viewing which is why you could well be having some reception problems.
I may be wrong..and if I am good..but my feeling is all will be sorted out come the next retune on the 21st..we'll see.
Just thought I'd mention my experience in view of your troubles.
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Which free digital TV system will give me the most reliable recMonday 7 October 2013 11:32AM
Eastleigh
KMJ,Derby:
Can you just clarify this bit of you post please... "and yes it is expected that over time services will migrate to DVB-T2 transmission, so starting with the COM muxes in about 2018, viewers without suitable equipment will no longer be able to view the affected channels."
Does that mean some COM services will be exclusively HD only and that eventually all SD transmissions will be discontinued on Freeview?
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Could one of our aerial installer friends advise me on a couple of points please.
A) I've had a leaflet through the the door today about 4G starting in my area (from you know who) but I was always under the impression that the Rowridge transmitter was immune from 4G transmissions because its channels are well away from the spectrum used by 4G. Am I a bit naive in thinking this and any idea how close you have to be to a 4G mast to expect any problems?
B) I had to have a new aerial/cable installation done a month ago come this Friday due to water ingression and everything has been fine until this past week when I've started noticing what I would call a 'shadow' effect (not proper ghosting) to the right of word banners (for instance rolling film credits are a good example) and people if there is a crowd on the screen (I've noticed it in particular when watching football as the players look to have little shadows chasing them.) I can't believe the new aerial is at fault here and wondered what causes this effect (Googling hasn't made me any the wiser.) Can anyone help me isolate and fix this effect please?
Thanks...Colin
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Thanks to jamie stevens and jb38 for their comments on 4G
The nearest transmitter to me is about about four city blocks away high up on a multi-storey car park. Its transmissions will hit my aerial from behind if that makes any difference.
I don't have any amplifications and my new aerial is a Yagi 18A (the old one was a standard Group A job which I think was better but time may well change my opinion of the Yagi.) I opted to stay with HP rather than VP because I get very good reception of the local tv signal (which at 10kw is very low) and I enjoy POP very much!! although I know it will disappear eventually. But I can always go VP should I ever need to.
Anyway I'll wait and see what 4G brings...I understand from my local Orange shop manager that it should come alive in about two weeks time (the nice man is going to alert me by email once its operating so I'll know what to look for come the day.)
As for the shadow problem I'm experiencing I didn't have it with my Group A aerial and it seems to have appeared overnight sort of thing so I'm wondering if some sort of obstruction (maybe a crane or the like) has gone up in between my aerials line of site to the transmitter and I'm getting some sort of reflection off of it. Would that sort of scenario make any sense?? I certainly don't think it's my tv as I have a 32inch Sony Trinitron crt type set and I'm pretty sure crt's don't suffer from shadows and ghosting like some of the the modern sets can. I've also tried another set top box with no improvement so I can rule that possibility out as well. Anyway I'll have to put up with it and just hope it disappears as quickly as it appeared. If necessary I can always get the Yagi double checked out as it came with a years guarantee on the works so there is that to fall back on if the problem doesn't go away.
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MikeB: Just a note to say I tried a dvd player and the problem persisted and as I haven't got a spare scart lead I finally managed to borrow one from a friend. On using it hey presto the shadows have gone! So I'll have to get a decent quality lead off of Ebay (where I live all we have is Argos and their leads are rubbish) and that should be an end to the matter.
Cheers and thanks for the tip.
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Brian, ever since the site was updated I can't read anything on here using Internet Explorer (9).
I can view with any of the Mozilla browsers but IE is a disaster as all I can see are the links to each subject covering the screen (if I could post a screen grab here I would but I don't think it's possible is it?)
Whether upgrading to IE 10 would make any difference I don't know but in any case I don't like 10 as it's not possible to turn off Clear Type which I find hurts my eyes especially when using a laptop.
I do need the use of IE as my email programme uses it to read html emails. I use pop3 collection so I read messages from my drive. On the old system you used I never had a problem but now all I see is gobbedly gook when trying to read the messages.
Has anybody else noticed a problem with IE on this site as if it's just me I may have corrupted the browser which ought to be recoverable but I can't say I've had any other problems with IE so I don't think it's the browser in itself.
I'll continue to use Pale Moon to view here but as I say I can't use my emailer to view your messages unless I can get IE sorted outed.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers...Colin
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MikeB I tried IE 10 and 11 and the problem persisted within my email programme.
I had a look at Thunderbird as it seems to be updated regularly but with that when you try to read a link in an email it just opens it in your default browser which rather defeats the object of having an inbuilt viewer like I have with my pop3 programme. But it did give me an idea.
Instead of trying to read the links in Brians emails directly in my mailer if instead I right click on the link I get the option to open in it another window and if I do that they open in Pale Moon which is my default browser so I think that's the way to go for me rather than get frustrated with Brians new format.
It's all very odd as I subscribe to various html email alerts and my email programme deals with them perfectly and it's just Brians that don't work.
I guess it's just an odd quirk that will never be explained but anyway I do appreciate Brians efforts with this site so I can put up with a little bit of hassle with the emails from time to time (smile.)
Job done as far as I'm concerned.
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Saturday 18 February 2012 4:55PM
Eastleigh
I notice on the Digital UK site that we now have a third step for retuning Roweridge on the 18th April (to retain existing services). It looks to be mandatory but I'm not sure.
First I've heard of it..is it worth adding to this site Brian?
Colin