All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Stuart Swaine: Check your actual transmitter - you might be on Bilsdale, which would give you both excellent covergae, but also a wider number of channels (see digitaluk), or you could be on another transmitter entirely. If your on the right transmitter, check all muxes. Some are weaker than others, but if your signal strength has been cut in half (and remember signal strength should be around 75% - 100% is too high), then its worth tracing the signal back to check you havn't got a problem. Might just be the aerial lead is loose or dodgy in the back of the TV.
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Betemax man: look at the stuff about the high pressure system - its messing with a lot of peoples reception.
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Brian Fooks: Your just 3km from the transmitter, and since it apparently has no problems, it sounds like your system is up the spout. The 'thunderstorms' is a clue - heavy rain and high winds are exactly the sort of thing that frays cables, lets in water and strains connections. Hence the problem. Since your so close to the transmitter, you might get away with an indoor aerial.
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Stuart Swaine: Put your postcode into the site, and you'll bring up lots of information about reception in your area, etc. Your postcode shows that Bilsdale is your best bet, and your aerial should be pointing NNE. But you shouldn't be getting HD channels from one transmitter and SD from another! So actually check by looking at your manual tuning setup on your TV - you dont need to tune anything but it will tell you what channel (frequency) your on. Bilsdale BBC1 is on Ch26. Its not impossible to pick up another transmitter with a lower channel number, or some other problem.
Once we know what your tuned to, then we can help sort out if its the right one, etc
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Stuart Swaine: Idle and Bilsdale are almost on the same bearing, with Idle's first mux being just before Bilsdale. Idle is Yorkshire, so thats your local news, with Bilsdale apparently being Tyne Tees. But Bilsdale gets you extra HD muxes, so take your choice. Most TV's will allow you to manually tune as well as an automatic function.
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Trevor: looking at your postcode on DigitalUK, your best for Crystal palace or possibly Sandy heath - and on both you should get very good reception, and have no need for a booster.
But although you might have a problem with the current high pressure system, you should check the signal strength on your aerial, and which transmitter your tuned into, just in case you've got a problem with your aerial system.
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Dave: Firstly, check that they are for a sat. system - an F fitting can be used for cable or even a terrestial system. However, if its a sat. system, you need to check the back of your TV first. If you've got a F fitting on the back of the TV, you can just use that - it means there is a sat. tuner built into it. Older Panasonics and some LG's had Freesat, whilst newer Sony's and LG TV's have generic tuners built in. Mid to high level Samsungs for the past 4-5 years have had Freesat.
If you dont have one, then get a Freesat tuner/PVR. You can get a manhattan one for 43 quid - just a reciever, but it will also give you Iplayer via ethernet. My Freeview version of the box freezes up every so often, so Humax would be even better. They do just a tuner, but the PVR is a better bet. 500gb , wifi (and all 4 channels on demand) - 189.
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Adrian Cafer: Nobody claimed that temperture inversions would be a thing of the past, but what you dont have so much of now is the way in which say French Tv channels would intermingle with British ones. I grew up on the South coast, and that was often a problem. With digital, you can pick up other transmitters, or even lose that transmitter entirely, but overall its less bad than it was.
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shirley cooper: Talcneston is always problematic, because much of the coastal area has small hills which mask its signal. But looking at that postcode, you can see for yourself that supposed to be getting an excellent signal, and no, the signal strength is constant.
As other have already pointed out, if if you've got problem at the moment, its due to high pressure, which is both perfectly natural and beyond anyone's control. If you've got a problem long term, check your system.
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Monday 6 June 2016 11:53PM
Tracey Sparkes: We need a postcode to find out what your problem is, but there is a high pressure system at the moment which is causing problems. And exactly the same thing used to happen to analogue, whatever people might chose to remember.