All posts by Martin French
Below are all of Martin French's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
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Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitterSaturday 17 November 2012 7:59PM
Downham Market
jb38 Having been without everything except the occasional Sky News we have just completed yet another scan which has recovered most of the missing channels. We will not rescan the TV again as and when we continue to lose some/all of channels in the future. Thanks very much for your help and information. This has all been very stressful and frustrating and we look forward at some time (hopefully in the very near future) to getting back to normal.
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Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitterFriday 7 December 2012 2:12PM
Downham Market
jb38
Do you or anyone else know when the engineering works at Tacolneston are likely to be completed.
We are totally frustrated at having been denied virtually all channels for most of the time during the last few months and are seriously considering replacing our Samsung LE32A457 television in our bedroom with a Panasonic Viera TX-L42E5B and then transferring the Samsung TV into the lounge to replace our really ancient and bulky Phillips CRT television used for watching non premium SKY channels on an inherited box. Is there a particular Panasonic TV that has a more robust inbuilt tuner? If there is little likelihood of getting watchable television with this or any other Panasonic TV we will just have to wait patiently until the maintenance works have been completed whenever that may be.
Also do you know what steps are going to be taken to prevent the forthcoming 4G mobile signals from causing problems with our TV bandwidth especially as we can't even get a 3G signal at our home or in many other local areas.
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Monday 12 November 2012 11:56AM
Downham Market
We have had problems with getting almost all Freeview channels for weeks (our best signal is on Sky News channel 82 but even this often breaks up and is unwatchable). We have the latest updates installed on our Samsung LE 32A457 TV and despite resetting the factory defaults and reprogramming the channels on many, many different occasions we cannot get any of the BBC channels and each time we reprogram we get some different programs (but not many). Our signal strength varies between 24 and 27 with a bit error level 4 (whatever that is). This is exceedingly frustrating (to put it mildly) so can you please tell us when things will get back to normal? Previously with analogue TV we didn't experienced any problems at all but ever since we were switched over on to digital TV we have experienced nothing but problems. We get no o2 mobile 3G signal at our home and virtually no watchable TV and are concerned that when 4G is rolled out we have been told to expect that our Digital TV will get even worse! Our aerial is located on the roof and we believe that we are on the Tacolnestone transmitter