All posts by Michael
Below are all of Michael's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
John Mitchell: The 30 transmitters were chosen to provide coverage to the largest amount of household across all four nations and also reused old equipment, to keep costs down.
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John Mitchell: You won't be able to get the com7 mux unless you can somehow get signals from Rowridge on the IOW (very unlikely).
CBeebies transmits during the day, and then is replaced by BBC3 at 7pm - no room at the moment for extra channels on the BBCB mux but encoder technology improvements may make it possible to squeeze in an extra channel in the future.
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John Mitchell: Well the only difference between the licence fee of you and someone who gets com7 is CBeebies HD/Four HD and News HD. All of those channels are available on Freesat/Sky/Cable and any programmes shown in HD on BBC4 are available in HD on the iPlayer.
The Freeview constraints are down to only having 6 UHF channels nationally to work with and continental Europe needs to be considered as well as they use these frequencies.
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Dave Laurie: I would first double check you are tuned in to the Redruth transmitter, as Caradon Hill would be found first in any automatic search due to its lower frequencies, but wouldn't give as good a signal for the commercial channels.
Go to BBC1, then go your TV's menu, and look for a manual retune or signal information option (could be in retune/installation/setup etc) - and see what UHF channel number or frequency it gives.
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Bill McDonald: Your current aerial is a wideband one? Can't be that wideband if it won't pick up UHF channel 33!
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MikeP: STV Glasgow is on LCN 23, but I without a postcode presumably Mr C Gardner you are outside of the coverage area for the local TV mux.
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Jon Holdsworth: No idea, but don't retune - it should come back on itself once the problem is fixed. You can however watch the BBC channels on the internet: BBC iPlayer - Watch BBC One live
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Noel Bristow: According to the DigitalUK tradeview (accessed to the right of your post) you are predicted to receive a variable reception from Beacon Hill, which transmits ITV3 on UHF ch42. Presumably your aerial points south-west and not north-east?
What I would do first is establish the signal strength/quality on each mux. Use either the signal strength screen or manual retune option (without actually pressing search) to see what UHF channel and strength/quality it gives you on the following channels:
BBC1, ITV, ITV3, PickTV, Yesterday (as well as BBC1 HD and BBC NEWS HD if you have them).
It could be because UHF 42 is the lowest of the 5 frequencies you will be picking up from Beacon Hill that the signal is just too low. Or it could be that you have a C/D group aerial that won't give as good a signal on that frequency.
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M Brady: The simple answer is a Freeview HD receiver. Plus a TV and aerial obviously. If you know where you are going you can check the coverage using the maps on this site.
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Sunday 6 July 2014 2:31PM
Darius: You're only a few miles from the transmitter - I don't think the fact COM muxes are at half power has anything to do with it... (otherwise you'd also have lost COM5 and 6!).