All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
alan paterson:
As you haven't said where you are or given a full postcode we can't give any specific information other than there are no reported faults at Mendip. If you are to the north, signals are being received at normal levels. If you are to the south, current weather with any snow may be affecting your signal.
Check that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing in the correct direction and that the downlead is secure and not flapping in the wind. Check all your coax connections behind the TV etc.
Have you altered/changed anything about with your equipment recently? Do you have any distribution amp/splitter etc.?
You are never advised to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this usually just clears the correct tuning. Try a manula retune on Mendip's UHF channels.
Post back with a full postcode if you are still having problems.
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Whilst the above report only mentions DAB and FM, the transmitter checker shows
From 9:02am on 18th Jan 2023 BBC A Off the air due to essential engineering
From 9:02am on 18th Jan 2023 BBC B HD Off the air due to essential engineering
Presumably it will be update when the transmitter is back on air.]
Do NOT retune!
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Martin P Scouse:
I can't track any reports for earlier in January, but the BBC multiplex 12B and the commercial one on 10B carrying BBC radio Oxford do not currently have any reported faults.
As with most main commercial multiplexes, trying find any fault reports or lists of engineering work is like getting blood out of a stone BUT the main commercial multiplexes are not transmitted from Farthinghoe. The signals will be coming from Daventry, Oxford, Bletchley (Bow Brick Hill), Lark Stoke (to the west) or possibly the relay at Aylesbury. Farthinghoe is about in the middle of all those and is predicted to get good reception, but which you get will depend on where you are at the time.
Your best bet would probably be to phone up one of the stations you are having a problem with and have the postcode of the location and ask them to ask their technical team to contact the transmitter people (usually Arqiva) about the reception problem.
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Ian Leslie Jackson:
As you haven't given a full postcode, we can't check your predicted reception and there's always the possibility that weather conditions might affect it if you are in a marginal area.
There are currently no reported faults for Sandy Heath and it's not currently listed for Planned Engineering.
Check that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing in the correct direction and that the downlead is secure and not flapping in the wind. Check all your coax connections behind the TV etc.
Have you altered/changed anything about with your equipment recently? Do you have any distribution amp/splitter etc.?
You are never advised to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this usually just clears the correct tuning. So whilst signal is steady, try a manual retune on Sandy Heath's UHF channels to ensure you are correctly tuned.
Post back with a full postcode if you are still having problems.
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Martin P Scouse:
Just to add to the above, if you were towards the Oxford area when you experienced a problem today, the BBC have reported -
Oxford: DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 18 Jan 11:01 until 18 Jan 12:01.
There is a very good chance that because they say it was Off-air, that the Commercial multiplexes were also off-air.
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Richard Burns:
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alan paterson:
Sorry, don't understand what you are saying about the postcode - can't see one. Looking at a previous post, if you are in Devizes, most parts should get a good signal from Mendip but without the postcode can't check if you are in a "not-spot" for some of the channels.
Look in your LG's TV Tuning section for Signal Strength and check and post back the figures for Signal Strength and Quality for each of the UHF channels from Mendip - 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 & 48.
You should have 100% Quality on each of those channels.
SOME locations may even get the Local multiplex on UHF C30.
You mention an indoor amp. What make and model is this?
Repeat the figures for each UHF channels with the amp disconnected and turned off, with the aerial plugged straight into the set, not via the amp. Too much signal can cause the symptoms you see especially if you are also getting signals from other transmitters (even when not tuned to them) which some locations in Devizes can get - eg. Wenvoe, Hannington, & Rowridge.
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alan paterson:
Just in case you are not sure where to find the information, it should be something like -
All Settings >Programmes >Programme Tuning & Settings >Signal Test
Then select each one in turn.
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John reid:
There isn't currently any reports of any outage, or power cut or Planned Engineering.
If there was a brief interruption, it may have gone unreported.
If you retuned at all when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures it may have just cleared the correct tuning. If so, try manual retuning on UHF channels C32, C34 (& C35 if you have HD).
Other than that, check that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing in the correct direction and that the downlead is secure and not flapping in the wind. Check all your coax connections behind the TV etc.
Have you altered/changed anything about with your equipment recently? Do you have any distribution amp/splitter etc.?
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Wednesday 18 January 2023 2:25PM
Mick Cryer:
Hope your signals have now returned, if not post back again with current signal strength and quality for each multiplex. Do NOT retune!
There are no reported faults for the Glenridding relay transmitter but as you probably know, it's a relay of the Caldbeck main transmitter which is currently listed for Planned Engineering where "Screen may go black on some or all channels".
They do not say how long the work goes on or what it involves, but it would be unusual for you to be without signals for any substantial period of time.