Hi

Thank you all for such good information. I was just wondering myself today whether or not we were actually on as I can today still receive . However, I did receive notices via the tv teletext thing saying I had to retune and these notices came up on both the 10th and 24th so I had assumed we were on the transmitter.

I am not particularly technological so will need to dig out my tv manual to do a manual retune of the HD channels.

I will also try using an indoor and see if that helps too and will report back asap!

I live in S10 1SS. Previously we were in S10 1RE. We received HD channels fine at S10 1RE and fine at S10 1SS for several days after we moved in, then we lost them around the 25th July.

I was wondering if it could be a problem with my HD freeview box (built into the TV), but then would I not receive any of the channels if that had a fault with it? Just to lose the HD channels seems a bit too selective for it to be a hardware fault but any advice in this regard would be most appreciated (the TV should still be under guarantee).

Many thanks for your.

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Sheffield (Sheffield, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Monday 29 August 2011 12:38PM

Hello,

After a weekend playing about using your kind instructions I have found that my aerial is indeed set up to receive - bbc channel was tuned in at ch 52. I honestly cannot fathom why someone would set it up to receive Emley Moor when I have a line of sight of the but hey ho. Funnily enough when I checked my other tvs in the house which work via they too were receiving Emley Moor so we must just be lucky enough to receive good signal from all that way. That being said we get better signal strength now I've retuned them and repositioned the indoor aerials.

As for my HD tv that runs of the house aerial, I first tried to manually the HD but it just kept saying for both the Emley moor HD channels and the Sheffield transmitter HD channels. Following your advice I realised that it was likely my aerial is facing Emley moor and not Sheffield and that due to some sort of atmospheric/weather related miracle I got the HD channels before but now the aerial needs to be facing the Sheffield transmitter or I need to wait for the at Emley Moor.

I tried a factory reset with the of erasing things from the tv's memory so it could then try to pick up the Sheffield transmitter but that didn't.

After losing the bbc channels today (presumably due to the Emley moor transmitter having work done/weather or a combination of that and the fact I've been fiddling) I took an indoor aerial from the tv in my kitchen and faced that in the direction of the Sheffield transmitter, did an auto retune and hey presto, I've got the HD channels back and a lot more new channels too!

I suspect that when the changeover at Emley moor is complete we'll be able to receive the HD channels through the aerial on the house. Failing that I might have to go up into the and try to turn the aerial to face Sheffield. However, until then I am happy to have the channels back through the indoor aerial.

Many thanks to you both, JB38 and Mike, for all your advice, without which I wouldn't have been able to get to the bottom of the problem.

Kind regards

Kathryn

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