Last week I retuned my Freeview TV and separate Freeview DVD recorder when prompted by a message on both of them. I have now lost all stations on Mux5/ArqA (Dave, Pick,etc) on both the TV and the DVD. We are about 12 miles from Sandy Heathtransmitter and signal has never been a problem. As I understand it Sandy transmits Mux 5 over channel 52. After re-tuning it looks like it found channel 52 but when I switch to any of the stations on Mux 5 I get 'No signal' displayed on the screen.
Somebody suggested I try an attenuator because the signal may be too strong - have tried that but no success. Have also tried clearing all channels and re-tuning - again no success.
Only thing left I can think of is to swap the aerial - I don't know whether my existing aerial is wideband but as it was receiving all channels perfectly OK a couple of weeks ago I don't understand what changed. I can find no information on this site or elswehere to suggest any changes made at the transmitter in the past couple of weeks.
Anybody here got any other ideas I might try to restore the missing stations before I shell out on an aerial I might not need?
Tuesday 6 December 2011 10:48PM
Cambridge
Last week I retuned my Freeview TV and separate Freeview DVD recorder when prompted by a message on both of them. I have now lost all stations on Mux5/ArqA (Dave, Pick,etc) on both the TV and the DVD. We are about 12 miles from Sandy Heath transmitter and signal has never been a problem. As I understand it Sandy transmits Mux 5 over channel 52. After re-tuning it looks like it found channel 52 but when I switch to any of the stations on Mux 5 I get 'No signal' displayed on the screen.
Somebody suggested I try an attenuator because the signal may be too strong - have tried that but no success. Have also tried clearing all channels and re-tuning - again no success.
Only thing left I can think of is to swap the aerial - I don't know whether my existing aerial is wideband but as it was receiving all channels perfectly OK a couple of weeks ago I don't understand what changed. I can find no information on this site or elswehere to suggest any changes made at the transmitter in the past couple of weeks.
Anybody here got any other ideas I might try to restore the missing stations before I shell out on an aerial I might not need?