All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Adrian:
As currently noted at the top of this page, P:ontop Pike is currently having Planned Engineering which may be the cause of signal loss. Current weather conditions are another possibility.
If you still have the LCNs listed in your EPG (eg.101-105 & others) then at least you haven't lost your correct tuning - retuning is a bad idea when you have no signal, you cannot tune to signals that aren't there or cannot be decoded, the usual result is to clear the correct tuning.
If the correct tuning has been lost, then MANUALLY retune C45 until you manage to get your signals back.
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BN Butterworth:
Brian -
From "Your Comments"
https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Pontop_Pike/PGSTART640/irt720100 gives a Pontop Pike page with just P1 and P49 showing as the pages, and NO comments visible - until you refresh the page - other than regular responders here, people would not realise to do that.
Not the first time I've mentioned this issue, and it affects several other transmitter pages, can you please please try and fix it.
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Saturday 24 May 2025 4:11AM
Jane Harris:
There's a number of reasons that could cause this disruption to signals BUT your "mistake" I'm afraid was to try and retune, you were obviously correctly tuned to start with! You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or cannot be decoded, the usual result is to clear the correct tuning the you have no idea when the signals have returned to normal,
Weather conditions are one possibility, Freeview issued a warning as did the BBC who updated theirs this week -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/work-warning/weather-warning/waw-high-pressure-19-may-2025
https://www.freeview.co.uk/help/updates-alerts/high-pressure-15-may-2025
There's also links to explanations of this weather phenomenon at the top of this page as well as my previous post here.
The transmitter you get your signals from may be having engineering work.
You may be getting interference from a new/upgraded mobile phone mast for which you'd be able to get a Free filter to block such signals.
As you haven't given a full postcode we can't advise on either of those two.
Have you had a postcard from Restore TV?
Obviously a fault on your aerial installation could be the cause, have you checked that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing correctly and that the downlead isn't flapping in the wind?
If you provide your full postcode we that then give some constructive advise on these.