All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Martin: If you have a look at a) DigitalUK and b) terrain plot, you can see that Crystal Palace is on channel 23, whils Bluebell Hill is on 46. On the other hand, Bluebell is 168 degrees (so check your aerials bearing), while Crstal palace is 275. So your box could be picking up Crystal Palace first (or your aerial could even be pointing to it).
More confusingly, the terrain plot has Roucefall as a possible, plus Chatham, which is a Light Transmitter. Actually, all three main ones have something in the way, and its possible that at some point someone chose a particular transmitter to point to, and therfore thats the one the box is picking up.
So, check what direction the aerial is facing (you can still get a signal off the back of an aerial), plus what transmitter the Panasonic is tuned into, and what one your TV is tuned into, because they could be different. Once we know, someone can make suggestions.
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Roger Duncanson: There must be switches somewhere on the net to change the feed from one coax to another, but probably more efficient in the long term is to change the lnb on the dish. If you've got just a single (for the Humax), you'd probably need to change it for a twin anyway if you wanted to watch and record on just the Sky Box, so replace it for a quad, and you can have both the Sky box, and the Humax, and one spare.
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Tracy: we need a postcode to work out whether you have a problem with reception generally, or whether its something to do with your system. If you just enter the postcode in the box provided when you next post, it will bring up lots of useful information as well.
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Michael: Your not the only one who wonders about this!
Sky is in about 25% of homes, but Sky 1 gets a fraction of BBC1 viewers. Of course, when you look at Sky 1's schedule for last night, there were endless repeats - apart from 8-11pm, everything was a repeat, and I'm not sure about the stuff they showed during those three hours (The Last Ship, Zoo, Ross Kemp). Still, its their money.
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MikeP: Thats the situation I was referring to - I dont expect the figures of Sky 1 to be as high as BBC1 overall (because 3/4 of us cannot get it), but I am surprised just how low it is, considering that the platform is in 20-25% of peoples homes and it offers content not available elsewhere.
The latest BARB figures (BTW - Bakeoff beat everything else by a factor of two - wow!) has BBC1 weekly reach of about 74%. Sky 1 has a 13.6% reach. Since 100% of people can get BBC1, multiply Sky's percentage of homes (25%) by 4 to equal BBC's reach, and your at 54.4%. Weekly viewing summary | BARB
If you use its % overall (.8% ?) and multiply that by 4, then its less than 4%. Channel 5 does better than that. Perhaps the news stuff isn't out yet.
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John : I'm wondering if the Light transmitter has more to do with geography than population or because its only been a 'city' for 16 years.
Try putting your postcode into the site, and use the terrain button to see what the signal paths are. As you said the 'very hilly nature' makes it difficult to get a signal at all. I'm betting thats why you have a Light transmitter, and because its a Light transmitter, it hasn't currently got the full range of channels, including BBC4 HD.
Thats not the BBC's fault - its the hills, and being a light transmitter, it just possibly get that extra mux in. Yes, Freesat would be a good solution.
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Stephen Kightley: See the page 'too much of a good thing' - the fact that you have a booster sounds about right for too high a signal.
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Angela Thompson: Firstly, we need a postcode, so we know what transmitter you should be able to get and what quality, etc.
Next, the most likely cause for your problem is the simplest - your aerial system has a problem. Start with the aerial lead from the back of the TV, and work back to the aerial. A dodgy connection, broken cable, etc is the most likely cause. If its more than one TV, then the cause is common to both - do you have a splitter/booster in the roof?
As to your new PVR - if the aerial is your problem, then you dont need it. Frankly, you could have got a Humax PVR (which is much better than the Bush) for not much more than 130, but thats another moatter. As for the TV's not talking to the box:
1) Is the box just HDMI, or does it have scart as well?
2) have you selected the correct inputs on the TV's?
3) Is the box connected up to the aerial etc properly?
4) Since your getting no signal to anything, the box probably cannot work properly in any case.
Start with the aerial and your existing box - connecting it up in the way you did before. And then check the cables.
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Malcolm house: Search for 'single source interference' on this site - sounds like a dodgy timer or thermostat messing up the signal. BTW - 10 quality fine, 10 strength is a bit high - 75% is close to perfect.
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Friday 26 August 2016 9:22PM
Martin: What transmitter are you using? According to your postcode, DigitalUK places you just 6km (!) from Bluebell Hill (admittedly with a hill or something fairly close to you), with all the muxes available at good levels.