All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Derek Booth:
Your best bet is, as has been suggested, Freeview's Updates and alerts | Freeview and then select the Latest Channel Updates posting. Updates typically take place on the Wednesday of the 3rd full week of the month (but not always). Some (seasonal) name changes can happen any time but aren't that common and retunes for them are rarely needed, a lot of sets update them when you select the channel or another on the same multiplex.
Full retunes aren't often required as there's rarely changes on the PSB multiplexes, it's usually the commercial broadcasters changing what they are providing on the COM muxes, and even then only when channels change multiplexes, often a manual retune of the multiplex concerned is all that's needed, but it can be all set dependant.
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Brian Butterworth:
Another bug that occurs from time to time, is when posting on a transmitter page (eg. just now with Nottingham) it did not return to the last page where the post would be. It seems random as to when this happens, I'll see if I can spot a pattern, but nothing obvious to date.
A very long time ago, over a year, it always used to return to the bottom of the page after the post, but these days just ends up at the top of the page.
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Dunja Bjrke:
When you are initially correctly tuned, if you have no signal for whatever reason, the last thing to do is retune, you cannot tune to signals that aren't there!
Often, retuning in this situation will either clear the correct tuning altogether, or tune you to incorrect weak signals from another transmitter, as appears to have happened.
If you have no signal on two sets, this would be indicative of either a transmitter issue, or you aerial installation having a problem.
The sort of initial checks to do would be to make sure your aerial is still looking intact and pointing correctly, that the coax downlead is not flapping in the wind and become detached, and any aerial amp/splitter still has power, and of course make sure all your coax plugs and leads are plugged in correctly and undamaged.
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Monday 27 January 2025 6:58PM
Brian Butterworth:
Appreciating your efforts, keep it up :)