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Brian Butterworth:

it's not clear to which transmitter your last post refers. However, the error to which you refer seems to affect all the transmitter pages.

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Thursday 21 March 2019 3:47PM

Martin: Yeh, looks like a spam post to me ;)

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Terry Burton:

If you meant aerials rather than dishes and are actually getting Freeview not Freesat, there has been some testing going on at Mendip in preparation for the forthcoming retune events (eg. see post above mine) and there have been breaks in transmission as you have described, usually late in the evening.
Note, all those channels are not on air at time of this post, & retune events are on 4th April, 5th June and 19th June.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Wednesday 27 March 2019 5:52AM

That 25th March is a SPAM generated post !

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All:
May wish to note that at time of posting, BBC MuxA is currently being simultaneously broadcast on UHF32 presumably in readiness for the retune event sometime after midnight tonight.

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Roger:

There was no problem when I last checked about an hour ago. Your location means that you may get a strong signal from Wenvoe as well. You best check using manual tuning that you are tuned to UHF32 for the BBCA mux (PSB1). The other possibility is if you have a very old group C/D aerial you may get insufficient signal as UHF32 is in Group A and you really need a Group T/Wideband aerial. Having said that unless you aren't in a very strong signal location most C/D aerials should give you some signal.
What sort of signal strength are you getting on the other multiplexes, especially those on UHF33, 35 & 36? Again you'll probably need to go into Manual Tuning mode to check that, or you may have a check signal setting.

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Iain Davies:

Of course they realise that some very old C/D aerials won't pick up C32 satisfactorily, but many will. And for those where the aerial is an issue, as long as they don't also have Cable and/or Satellite, they may be eligible for assistance with an aerial change as detailed on this page Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview (which you could have mentioned!). Thanks to Tony H for mentioning the details again which have been posted several times on this board.

Brian:

As has been mentioned on previous posts on this board (if you scroll back a bit), there are retune events taking place this year for the eventual clearance of the 700 Mhz band. Did you not see any on-screen retune messages for this one? The link I've just posted (& previous ones) and those mentioned by Tony H provide the information. As of today the correct list is currently 32, 54, 58, 48, 56, 36, 33, 35 & 51 for the local mux, but 49 is still on air at present.

Brian: Adrian Auton: & Graham:
If you are still having trouble getting all the muxes tuned in on some devices, try a complete retune with the aerial unplugged to clear all the current tunings. Then reconnect the aerial and ideally do a manual tune for the UHF channels listed above to avoid any clashes with Wenvoe signals. Some devices will allow you to choose a region after an automatic scan where you are getting more than one transmitter.

For those still having problems with the lower UHF channels 32, 33 etc, then your aerial system may need upgrading to a T group or wideband, but check other things such as poor connections on all your connectors by unplugging them, check connections and plugging in again.

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Tony H:

Brian Butterworth has posted elsewhere about the mostly "final" position listings showing on a lot of transmitter pages, and this is in part due to a bug in his code, but yes keeping up with all the changes across the country is no mean feat. But thanks anyway to Brain Butterworth for providing and hosting the site at no cost to us.

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Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter
Sunday 7 April 2019 12:40AM
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Brian:

I suggest you re-read my Friday post at 9.10pm - the long one before your last. Especially the paragraph beginning "If you are still having trouble getting all the muxes ....".
Closing down C49 will make no difference. If you follow the MANUAL tuning method I described after clearing the tuning memory by scanning with the aerial unplugged, it should solve the problem.

I'm also reminded by Adrian finding and resolving the cause of his issue with C32 being blocked by an RF modulator, that if you have any RF modulators running from any other "boxes", in the first instance switch them off to see if it solves your retuning problems with the aerial then plugged directly into the device you are retuning. It would probably be best to adjust the modulator channels to ones at the top of the UHF band above C60.

Yes, the channels on this site are currently wrong, please re-read my post immediately preceding your last.
As has been mentioned many times on this board and most other transmitter boards putting your postcode into the DigitalUk coverage checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker will not only give you the current Mux channel allocations, but details of retunes etc. Other pages on DigitalUk and Freeview will give you a wealth of useful information.
The tvchanges page also has some useful FAQs as well as mention of a "Code of Service" and mention of the changes being announced by OFCOM whose site will have lots of background information if you wish to search for it.

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Iain Davies:

Your post Mendip (Somerset, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy gives the impression you are an experienced aerial installer, you also made mention of the 2019 retune events in a post prior to that, so frankly I'm flabbergasted that you aren't aware of all the information and support that's available.

The "organisers" haven't shot themselves in the foot at all. As mentioned by StevensOnln1, retune events, 700Mhz clearance etc has been well publicised over recent times as well as the potential need for a new aerial. In the last few days before the retune(s), there've been on screen messages.

FYI in the analogue days when Channel 5 started up it's UHF allocations were typically C35/C37 indifferent parts of the country. With it being C37 at Mendip, there were "Enhanced" C/D group aerial produced to give improved reception of C35/C37. I guess it probably made them a bit like a Group E.
Anyone with one of these may not have any particular problems with the retunes. But as mentioned in previous posts, help is available from Freeview.
I would guess that C49 will remain on air a while, to give those having problems with C32 chance to contact Freeview for possible help with an aerial upgrade.


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