All posts by KMJ, Derby
Below are all of KMJ, Derby's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
terry mason: Further to Dave Lindsay's post, your aerial is most likely pointing to Sutton Coldfield, with Sandy Heath signals being picked up from the rear.( both transmitters being horizontally polarised.) If the Anglia channels are in positions 1&3, with Midlands in the 800s of the channel list, this is the most likely scenario.
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Watlingfen: I can't understand why branding is necessary. Whatever happened to individuality?
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Ian Garrick: Cast a glance arround the neighbourhood to see if there are any aerials pointing at Lancaster. A group "A" aerial is required for Lancaster, pointing roughly South and set for vertical polarisation. This could give an indication if your location is within range of the full Freeview service. Also, put your postcode into the DUK postcode checker, with trade view ticked, to see a prediction for what signals are are possibly available.
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nick bowering: Could you give more information with regard to the services that you are unable to receive? That is Freeview, DAB/FM radio or satellite! Also what kind of receiver and aerial (or dish) are you using?
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nick bowering: I should have said that assuming it is Freeview you are having trouble with , that you are expected to have excellent reception from Wenvoe when using a suitable aerial, and good reception from the Kings Weston relay, again with a suitable aerial.
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Gavin: Try a manual tune on 10B and 10D. Capital is available on a number of local DAB muxes.I am not familiar with the terrain in the Banbury area, but the most likely transmitters at present to offer local DAB to the locality are Oxford and Bow Brickhill, on the frequencies suggested above.
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John: I remember that there was a similarly slow take up of VHF/FM when that was introduced. Transmissions began in the Southeast in 1955, with stereo on the Third program from 1962. It was really the introduction of BBC local radio on VHF that generated some interest among listeners, but even so, medium wave transmitters were added later to give mass coverage as so few people were able to listen to the FM services. It was really the the addition of FM to Radio1 in the late 1980s and the switch off of Radio1/2/3 from medium wave in 1994 that pushed listeners over to predominantly FM usage.
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Slight correction to the dates mentioned, as Radio 2 lost its medium wave in 1990 to Radio5, this became 5 live in 1994. Radio 3 went FM only in 1992 - as mentioned in the article above.
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mark winters : There are three posts on the Huntshaw Cross page regarding poor reception on PSB2 in the Westward Ho! area.
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Monday 19 August 2013 8:28PM
Hugh Hanratty: An aerial pointing at Waltham at your location is also pointing roughly at Belmont, so it is not surprising that your receiver is presented with signals for both transmitters. On receivers that put services into the channel list on a first come first served basis the Belmont signal, being found first in the scan is chosen for PSB1 with the Waltham signal treated as an alternative region, so BBC1 is placed in the 800s. Depending on the design features of the tuner the other BBC channels from Waltham might appear in the 800s, or might replace the Belmont channels when they are seen to be of identical content, but with a stronger signal, or might simply be ignored as duplicates of services already found! The latest receivers usually ask you to select a prefered region. To get round this problem, in your case, the easiest way is to commence a re-tune with the aerial unplugged, then plug it in at C26 in the scan, thereby having missed out PSB1 and PSB2 from Belmont. The tuner will the find SDN from Waltham on C29. The alternative on receivers that permit manual tuning is to clear the channel list, then add the Waltham frequencies one by one in order to store the whole set of required channels.