All posts by Jim fraser
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Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitterTuesday 1 September 2020 3:22PM
Leicester
Our tv was receiving signal from the Waltham transmitter as we prefer the East Midlands news. The Sutton Coldfield one is a bit nearer to us at le9 6wy but the signal was fine from Waltham. West midlands was on 801. Our recorder box was on west midlands by default and Waltham on one of the 800 channels. Today we switched the tv on and it came up as west midlands on channel one, East midlands had disappeared off the channel list though BBC 2 was fine which I thought was odd as it is on the same frequency. I retuned, no different, changed a cable at the back retuned again, BBC east midlands was on 801 but severely pixelated and then went off altogether with a no signal notice. When it first went to Sutton Coldfield we had not touched anything. I just do not know what is going on. The aerial is a roof one. There is a small tv in the kitchen on a loft aerial and that picks up Waltham with no trouble. Our main tv is only a few months old so do not think that is at fault.
Any advice would be welcome.
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Thanks for your comprehensive answer to my problem a couple of days ago. I had already tried retuning with aerial out and then in again but Waltham on 1 still broke up. My Sony does not have auto updates only software updates via internet but mine is not on. Tried the manual tune for channel 32 for bbc and it was ok from Waltham on channel 1 but only for 45 minutes then it pixelated out again. It was fine this morning again for the news, on for about 2 hours. Ok again at lunchtime when it was on for some of the news again. This evening it was ok for about 10 minutes then broke up again. It is baffling me. Any more advice as to what could be causing it?
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Chris.SE: Hi again Chris, I have sussed problem to pvr box I think. It is a Sagemcom bought in 2011. I plugged the main aerial directly into tv and Waltham bbc was fine, left in on for 30 mins to see if picture broke up but was ok. Put the signal back through the pvr and pixelated straight away then lost the signal. Funny thing is the other mux groups from Waltham seem ok, just the bbc ones affected. Any idea why this should be? Maybe need a new box but need to be sure it is the box at fault as new recorders are not cheap. If it is the box could it be repaired do you think. We have loads of films recorded on it waiting to be viewed so am reluctant to ditch it.
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Chris.SE: Hi again Chris, I have sussed problem to pvr box I think. It is a Sagemcom bought in 2011. I plugged the main aerial directly into tv and Waltham bbc was fine, left in on for 30 mins to see if picture broke up but was ok. Put the signal back through the pvr and pixelated straight away then lost the signal. Funny thing is the other mux groups from Waltham seem ok, just the bbc ones affected. Any idea why this should be? Maybe need a new box but need to be sure it is the box at fault as new recorders are not cheap. If it is the box could it be repaired do you think. We have loads of films recorded on it waiting to be viewed so am reluctant to ditch it.
Later, ignore last message. I plugged aerial into tv direct for 6pm news, started to break up more or less straight away. I will have to get someone in to test signal strenths etc as this is too puzzling for me
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Tuesday 25 August 2020 10:53AM
What frequency is sony movies classic on from the west midlands transmitter. There is nothing on its channel, (50) but the oddest thing is once in a while the programme listings are there and the next day it has gone again, maybe for a few weeks. I want to try a manual input of its frequency. Apart fro smc +1 what other channels share its frquency. Retuning makes no difference.