All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Brian Todd:
Viewing the Darwen (Blackburn with Darwen, England) Freeview Light transmitter | free and easy page, there aren't any reported issues, but reception will depend on your postcode. If you put it in Digital UK - Coverage checker you could see if there are any potential reception problems at your location.
Whilst there is work going on at the Main Winter Hill transmitter, this shouldn't affect the Darwen relay.
Are you having similar problems with any of the other BBC channels - BBC Four, BBC News, BBC Parliament etc.?
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David Gurr:
As has been mentioned many times, unfortunately the site owner has not had the time to correct all the information on all the transmitter pages.
For the UHF channel allocations for each mux, you are best looking at Coverage Checker - Detailed View or by putting your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker you can get your predicted reception for your location Coverage Checker - Detailed View
For up-to-date channel listing for each multiplex, this is usually the best place Digital UK | Channel listings
All Using Sandy Heath:
Note that this week beginning 1st July, there is planned engineering with the possible effect of a weak signal.
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Carole:
Leaving aside what MkeP says for a moment, you were receiving some channels previously. I do not believe that at your location (which I know) you will no longer be getting anything unless there is some fault or interference (or coincidence). Is your aerial pointing the correct way?
Doing a manual tune will be the best way of checking things out but AFTER you have unplugged your coax plugs and sockets, looked at & checked the connections and plugged them back in.
Having done the checks, leave the aerial unplugged and do an automatic tune, this will clear the set of any previously stored information which may/may not have been correct.
Look at your manual & your set's programme/tuning menus and find the Manual tuning option (I'll try and look at a manual myself after this post and post back anything useful). Now choose UHF Channel 48 which is the SDN multiplex which your existing aerial should get with no problem if there is no fault.
If that works OK then as you have a new set, also try UHF channels 55 & 56 which are the two HD muxes COMs 7&8.
If all that is working so far then it's worth having a go at the other channels.
The UHF channels are 32 (BBCA), 34 (D3&4), 35 (BBCB - HD), 33 (ARQA - COM5), 36 (ARQB - COM6).
If your aerial is not the correct type you may well have problems with some or all of those. The situation may be compound by the current weather high pressure conditions which can cause interference from other transmitters.
If all has gone well, then the local mux is on UHF 30, you could try that as well.
One final query, do you know roughly how old that aerial is supposed to be?
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Carole:
OK your TV Installation Menu has a couple of things you need to look at.
First, if it has an Installation Settings (model dependant) then make sure that Standby Search and Dynamic Channel Update are both turned OFF. You can get too many transmitters and this is likely to cause confusion and possibly incorrect tuning.
2nd, The menu has Automatic Channel scan which, as already mentioned, you should do with the aerial unplugged to clear any previously stored tuning.
Then select Manual channel scan, and go through the UHF channels in the order I mentioned in the previous post. If you are successful with any of the first ones, ie. 48, 55 & 56, then goto the Signal Information menu and see what it tells you for firstly UHF channel 48, then 55 & 56.
If all is good so far then Manual tune UHF 32, and check the Signal Information for it (make a note of all these) so you can tell us. Carry on with the other UHF channels if everything is working OK.
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Fade2gray:
AFAIK there is no way to PM or email anyone, but rather than talk in "riddles", what is your 'possible' security concern then?
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David:
I would suggest wait and see if a problem persists. Depending on your location, you may get strong signals from Wenvoe and the COMs 7&8 on UHF 55 & 56 are now SFNs (single frequency networks) that could periodically cause interference. Also the current weather patterns may produce interference from other transmitters.
Another recent poster here lives where they can get signals from multiple transmitters being on high ground (I used to cycle around there as a teenager living not far away) and it can prove problematic but whether you repositioning your aerial might help, is difficult to say. You should remember though that these muxes are only temporary and are like to have gone sometime between 2020 & 2022 - by which time hopefully some of the other muxes will have become HD to accommodate the programmes.
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Brian Todd:
I replied to your previous almost identical post here - Freeview 700MHz clearance (retune) dates | free and easy
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Fade:
Informed about what exactly? I've spotted some issues but not what I would call 'security' concerns.
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Tuesday 2 July 2019 12:12AM
Ann Lloyd:
As MikeP says, you need a Wideband/Group T aerial to satisfactorily receive all channels from Mendip. The two muxes D3&4 (for ITV, 4, 5 etc) and BBC B HD are predicted to be received more poorly at your location than the other multiplexes so if your aerial isn't correct, you may just receive the other multiplexes OK but not those two, see your predicted reception at Coverage Checker - Detailed View scroll to the bottom for Mendip.
Also however, as you may see, at your location several transmitters are receivable and it's possible that you aren't tuned to all the correct UHF channels so you need to check that you are tuned to the following UHF channels for Mendip's multiplexes - 32, 34, 35, 48, 33, 36, 55, 56.
Now if you are tuned to the correct channels (check your tuning menu for manual tuning/signal test etc) then, depending on your aerial and it's position you MIGHT get reception from Stockland Hill UHF23 &29 for the two multiplexes in question, but they are West Country regional programmes, not West. HTH.