All posts by Adrian Durrant
Below are all of Adrian Durrant's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Sorry... please delete that, and this post. In fact, all is well. The jewellery show is just playing on those channels until something better comes on, I panicked and thought they'd replaced those two channels. ooops!!
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Dave, many thanks, very interesting & great advice generally for anyone with problems of the nature discussed; I do apologise profusely, as I said above, I CAN actually receive all the channels. I can actually SEE both the Heathfield and Hastings channels from my roof and yet as I say, it turns out after all that I have no problems or at least am getting at least everything I did before, possibly since Eastbourne transmitter is behind my aerial and Heathfield is sideways-on and the wrong polarisation... as I said, I wrote to the local rag then saw the problems people were talking about here and paniicked that i'd got my facts wrong. But seems all is well, thanks again.
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PS Regarding re-aligning, best in my case to leave well alone for the time being; my aerial is the Triax 100 which I reckon probably has too high gain to be pointed at Heathfield.
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Many thanks, I will see how things go, see if it turns out that re-aligning's the way to go. If that situation comes about it would indeed be a good idea to use a splitter; could then do away with my amplified splitter.
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Dave, the 'wattage' figure for the transmitters (at the right), is that what we used to call 'ERP' (Effective Radiated Power)?
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Many thanks Dave, still considering the idea of realigning my Triax Unix 100 to Heathfield instead of Hastings, and I'm comparing the power of the transmitters. It would actually be quite a big fiddly job and the only benefit would be that I could use an unpowered splitter instead of the powered one I have. Also I guess Heathfield signals might be less affected by co-channel interference during high atmospheric pressure... It's a tough call, jury's still out I guess!
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Dave; Many thanks for your advice, having thought about it I decided to realign to Heathfield; it was tricky because it meant dismantling the six-year-old aerial and mast and moving it to another corner of the chimney (to keep birds'-muck off the chimney), I took a few hours quite laborious and fiddly work and disaster loomed when I found a couple of vital nuts were rusted... however engine grease got them loosened. Pleased to say it was a job worth doing because it makes more sense to use the more powerful transmitter and I have been able to do what you suggested and use an unpowered splitter and have binned my old powered one. I located the Heathfield transmitter with binoculars and beamed the Triax 100 straight at it! Plenty of signal to split four ways and reception's excellent.
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Excuse me for butting in and admin will correct me if I'm wrong but I think you need to get a top-up TV box
Sky Sports, Sports Packs, Sky Sports 1 & 2 | Top Up TV (BN229DT)
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Friday 29 June 2012 10:43AM
So... we see above what channels Hastings is broadcasting but what we can RECIEVE is another matter... having made an idiot of myself writing to the local paper saying I don't know what people are complaining about, I now see that despite being shown as broadcast from Hastings, 5USA and Film4 have actually gone from my screen. And yes, I have done automatic and manual re-scans, unplugged the power supply and aerial and tried again... it's unbelievable that neighbouring transmitters are using the same frequencies. Probably not worth re-aligning to Heathfield, will probably just be swapping those missing channels for others. What a shambles.