All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
B French:
The Peebles transmitter is a relay of Selkirk and some viewers have been having problems with it but I can't find any "official" fault reports! Based on comments I've seen you should be getting the HD channels (if your set has an HD tuner) so you should have ITV, Ch4 and Ch5 in HD.
Do not retune as this will just generally clear your correct tuning and you'll just have to repeat the process when signals are back to normal.
If you are still having issues, please provide a full postcode so we can look at predicted reception in your locale.
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Richard Maddock :
The only problem being that if the licence fee had been waived, it's likely the quality of BBC programmes would be reduced even more!
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m webber:
You've posted on the DAB transmitter page rather than the TV one, but not to worry, if you provide a full postcode we can look at the predicted reception in your locale.
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A Lloyd:
The simple answer is there is no channel (LCN) 200.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
What was it you thought you wanted to receive/record?
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A Lloyd:
Apologies, part of my post didn't appear - probably due to an error on my part. here is what it should be -
The simple answer is there is no channel (LCN) 200.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
What was it you thought you wanted to receive/record?
The Red button page moved to LCN 250 a few years ago, unfortunately the site owner hasn't had time to update this page with that information.
But that aside, the BBC have also changed what is available using the procedure described.
The Test Card isn't available any more and what is available doesn't appear to be of any real practical use to the average user, but do have a "play".
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Graeme Robertson:
Recent posts on the Bilsdale transmitter page have links to all the pages carrying the latest information including this one Channel information for Eston Nab and Arncliffe Wood | Freeview which is what you want.
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As Freeview have a nasty habit of removing pages they seem to think are no longer needed, here's the detail -
The UHF channels for Eston Nab are C27, C24, C21, C23, C26, C48, C30, C55 that's in the multiplex order
BBC A/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBC B HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ARQ A/COM5, ARQ B/COM6, Local/(L-MDB), COM 7
The UHF channels for Arncliffe Wood are C40, C43, C46, C29, C31, C37 that's in the multiplex order
BBC A/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBC B HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ARQ A/COM5, ARQ B/COM6
All Bilsdale Relay transmitters are now supposedly operational on their usual UHF channels.
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Saturday 4 September 2021 1:48AM
Christine Hope:
The Freeview "chat" (or its other "communication channels") are notoriously unreliable when it comes to issues like this and they generally tell you to retune which is totally the wrong advice!
You are quite correct, it can't be your aerial if you are receiving some multiplexes with no issues, I hope you told them that - very bluntly! (However having said that, there are some types of installation faults that can affect a single multiplex but it is very unusual to affect several, it would usually be one, or all of them).
I can't find any faults reported by the BBC who are usually very good at reporting faults with multiplexes affecting any of their own channels, which seems to fit with your experience, suggesting that the BBCA/PSB1 and BBCB HD/PSB3 are ok and it's just all the commercial SD multiplexes including D3&4/PSB2.
Unfortunately trying to find fault information about the commercial multiplexes is like trying to get blood out of a stone!
I hope you have got all your channels back now, you might have had to do a further retune to restore them (see my previous comments to Ian Brown about retuning).
If not, please provide a full postcode so we can look at predicted reception in your locale.
In addition to all this, I should advise that current weather conditions might cause temporary interference (causing signals from distant transmitters to travel a lot further). Such conditions (often associated with tropospheric ducting) means your set can't decode the correct signals. Such conditions are often frequency dependent so not all multiplexes would necessarily be affected, nor all at the same time. The conditions could just last for seconds or many minutes but sometimes longer. There is nothing anyone can do about it and do NOT retune! You just have to "sit it out".