All posts by Jack Owens
Below are all of Jack Owens's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
MikeB
Hi Mike, Thanks for your response, actually the problem is with the channels on the Com 5 group above, ie PICK,Dave, Sky News etc but I guess the suggested solution should apply equally to this group so I'll check out cabling and leads further. What I don't fully understand is why this particular group should suffer poor reception if all other aspects are equal with other COM groups especially if the transmitting power is the same. Rather odd that Dave cannot be received but Dave ja vu on the other COM can! Have to watch Dave an hour after everyone else! Don't know much about technical aspects but is it possible that transmissions are "spread" and a physical barrier ie a tree, could block only one COM's channels?
Thanks for your comment and I'll look at the aeria
lead etc again
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Richard Cooper:
Hi Richard, thanks for your comment. I have checked with the 4G people at the 800 site and they confirmed that 4g interference at my location is not an issue but they were helpful in pointing me back to this site for further investigation.
Cheers Jack
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Richard Cooper:
Richard/Mike, I hardly dare to believe it but having taken your advice and after deleting all stations on my Humax box and re tuning on automatic search, all the previously unusable stations now seem to be watchable.
Your advice re the cabling seems to be the answer after months of frustration. Having previously only done a cursory inspection of cabling, I took the co axial plug off the lead and ruffled up the screen wire on the cable and tightened and replaced the plug and hey presto, new channels from the previously errant MUX!.
However, The weather conditions today are very Muggy and I only hope that it's not just freak atmospheric conditions that are allowing only a temporary respite!
The stations captured appear to be from a variety of transmitters : London / Oxford and Sandy Heath which does not matter - BBC and ITV now have alternative news channels to select.
So, steady as she goes and I will report back if things are proved to be only temporary.
Meantime, thanks for your advice - very much appreciated.
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MikeP:
Thanks your comment. See my reply to RichardC and Mike B too. Hopefully atmospheric conditions are not responsible !
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MikeB:
Hi Mike, I took the liberty to combine an answer to You and Richard Cooper on the same reply which I posted earlier this evening.
Thanks again.
Jack
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Wednesday 17 August 2016 9:26PM
Channel 59 has extremely poor or non existent reception (MUX 5 ?) on our TV. Other channels from the Oxford transmitter are fine ( other MUX )
Is there an explanation for this please?
Aerial is on the chimney