All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
terry bannon: That postcode doesn't seem to be valid. When you next post, just put your postcode into the website, and it will bring up lots of links which enable us to work out the terrain from the transmitter to you, distance etc.
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Jeff Bond: If you look at the top of the page, it doesn't appear thats there are any problems with the transmitter (or at least none reported).
Logically, that means its your aerial system that has the problem, although how both you and your neighbours have the same problem is beyond me, if your using different aerials.
Check for loose or broken connections, frayed wires, cracks/breaks where moisture has got in or corrosion. Of course if you've just experiences high winds, and driving rain, that might explain the problem, and possibly your neighbours as well.
If you have a booster/amp, that might be playing up, perhaps the power feed. Of course your neighbours might similar problems, but its just one of those things that its at the same time.
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Jeff Bond: You might be fine for now, but although you've checked the connections, it sounds like there is a fault somewhere. Moisture sounds the most likely explaination, with it having dried out allowing you to get all the channels again.
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stuart: As JB38 points out, you basically can't. If either of the TV's have a Freesat/generic sat. tuner in them (2013 and 2014 Sony/LG's and some Samsung's/Panasonics), then you can at least you a normal dish with a single LNB.
The recorder could use a sat. box to record from, but basically, you need to get some means of decoding the signals from the dish, and as JB38 points out, you need an LNB for each device.
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jb38: Totally agree. The dish part isn't that difficult (at least in theory!), its the boxes at the other end as well. Dish systems are great in many ways, but they are a bit less flexible than Freeview.
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MikeP: Humax is the one our tech support people like - they get to see what comes back, so I tend to trust them!
Its an excellent point - you tend to get what you pay for. A cheap PVR tends to have basic software, poor remote, etc. However, a decent Freesat PVR (not that there are that many) isn't that expensive. A Humax can be had for £169.95 at the moment, which is 17 months of paying Sky £10 a month, and of course you own it.
I stumbled on a Sky forum last year and was amazed at how many of the forum users didn't know that there were other ways to record TV at all...
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ken Illsey: The Humax has two rather sensitive tuners, and it does'nt always allow a manual scan.
So check your transmitter, because your just 1km from Bury St Edmunds light transmitter, and the bearing isn't vastly different to Talcneston. You might have the wrong transmitter.
Then check signal strength. HD tends to get hit by too high a signal first, so check it and look here: Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you
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Wednesday 12 November 2014 1:25PM
Duncan: Firstly, check your signal strength - your 32km from the transmitter, but it could be too high. But if its very low, and your getting no signal, then it sounds like the aerial wiring has a problem - broken, frayed, corroded, etc.
Same thing for your mum's TV.